“A very long struggle awaits us. And we know that it would be very romantic and idealistic to entertain immediate goals of tearing down all the walls of all the jails and prisons throughout this country. We should take on the task of freeing as many of our sisters and brothers as possible. And at the same time we must demand the ultimate abolition of the prison system along with the revolutionary transformation of this society.”
Davis, Angela. "The Gates to Freedom." Speech Delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, Embassy Auditorium, June 9, 1972 Los Angeles, CA
American RadioWorks
“The 19th century also saw the introduction of mechanical well pumping systems. Primarily wind driven, this new technology opened up lands that were depleted of surface water to continual grazing and prevented wetlands restoration by lowering of water tables. The result was desertification in many areas of southern California.”
Connolly Miskwish, Michael. Watersheds of the Southern Coast. Briefing Paper. 2009 California Tribal Water Summit. 2009. p. 6.
World Resources SIMCenter
“Wildfire is a naturally occurring phenomenon usually occurring during the late summer and early fall. Many plant species are able to survive fire, and some even need it to thrive. The Kumeyaay knew this, creating and using fire to increase the abundance of edible plants for humans and wildlife, for controlling insects and diseases that could harm edible and useful plants, and to increase plant materials used in making baskets, cordage, clothing, and tools.”
Connolly Miskwish, Michael, Stan Rodriguez, and Martha Rodriguez. Kumeyaay Heritage and Conservation (HC) Project Learning Landscapes Educational Curriculum. p. 49. Laguna Resource Services, INC., Kumeyaay Diegueño Land Conservancy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. August 1, 2016. Accessed July 2020.
California Department of Parks and Recreation
“Jerusalem, once dreamed of over an eternity of exile, can be a tiring experience—it is entrapped by all of history—the many narratives of his tory, the songs of it, the claims of it, its prayers, paintings, poems, its lies.”
Ali, Kazim. "A Walking Guide to the Heart of a City." Prairie Schooner 87, no. 4 (2013): p. 86.
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JSTOR
“The handshape often represents the argument in motion (the theme) or the manipulation of the (patient) argument by the subject. The hands, then, may encode many more aspects of the event than the body. This is to be expected. The hands are much more versatile than the body.”
Meir, Irit, Carol A. Padden, Mark Aronoff, and Wendy Sandler. "Body as Subject." Journal of Linguistics 43, no. 3 (2007):p.545. Accessed May 13, 2021.
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“The hands, in contrast, have more degrees of freedom. They have a specific shape, assume a specific orientation, and move in a specific manner and a specific direction. As a consequence, the hands may represent many more aspects of the sign’s meaning components in iconic or partially iconic signs.”
Meir, Irit, Carol A. Padden, Mark Aronoff, and Wendy Sandler. "Body as Subject." Journal of Linguistics 43, no. 3 (2007):pg. 541-542. Accessed May 13, 2021.
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“Even today the ocean both divides and links the nations of mankind. In the past the fate of many peoples was shaped by the sea. The list of these peoples includes the Phoenicians, who are said to have been the first seamen to dare sail at night, guided by the North Star…”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): p.56. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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JSTOR
“There sure are a lot of twigs on the street, considering
There isn’t a single tree in this city. Not a tree not a tree in the city.
What color is that beneath the vetch? I would have to say orange.
But a different kind of orange, the darkest imaginable.
Almost a sienna. THe color of so many bricks, vines glued
Suggestively. Vines with swollen pods weighing them down
Like bags of sand outside the wicker basket of a hot air balloon.”
Doller, Ben. “The Canary Islands.” Radio, Radio: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. P.13.
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“Ten years ago Aldous Huxley published a precious volume which he called The Perennial Philosophy and which is an anthology from the mystics of the most various periods and the most various peoples. Open it where you will and you find many beautiful utterances of a similar kind. You are struck by the miraculous agreement between humans of different race, different religion, knowing nothing about each other’s existence, separated by centuries and millennia, and by the great distances that there are on our globe.”
Yadegari, Shahrokh. "The Radif as a Basis for a Computer Music Model: Union of Philosophy and Poetry through Self-referentiality." PhD diss., University of California, San Diego, 2004. p.182. (Schr ̈odinger 1967, p. 139)
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PhilPapers
“Chickens changed my life. Saved my life. Though it is also true to say that as we ride the stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness, and death, many things, people, and events change what we call life. A life is merely a conglomeration, a concatenation of effects and affects, often unpredictable, though even when predicted, things seldom turn out as expected.”
Stern, Lesley, and Amy Adler. Diary of a Detour. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. P.1.
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Duke University Press
“At our house we say a Buddhist grace—
We venerate the Three Treasures [teachers, the wild, and friends] And are thankful for this meal
The work of many people
And the sharing of other forms of life.
Anyone can use a grace from their own tradition (and really give it meaning)—or make up their own. Saying some sort of grace is never inappropriate, and speeches and announcements can be tacked onto it. It is a plain, ordinary, old-fashioned little thing to do that con- nects us with all our ancestors.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p.185.
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BeWild ReWild
“....and I personally hope that you will remember the things which have been said tonight, even those which we prayed in the invocation for guidance and inspiration and courage. It will take all those things for us to remember the objectives for which we want a victory, for us to resolve difficult questions which will be hard for many of us to face. It will take understanding and sympathy to think of the problems of the world and to realize that today the world has narrowed, and that we feel very quickly the sufferings of other areas of the world, and they add to our sufferings.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. "Remarks at the 1956 DNC." Speech, 1956 Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, August 13, 1956.
Iowa State University
“Never get a feeling that we cannot succeed, because I think with the help of all of you, and the help of many other people in our country, we can succeed. All we can do is pray that we will grow more tomorrow and that others will grow with us, and together we will be able to win a peaceful world.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. "Making Human Rights Come Alive." Speech, Speech to Pi Lambda Theta, Columbia University, New York City, New York, March 30, 1949.
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Iowa State University
“They stepped on
violets and other
sweet flowers,
many kinds in many
colors; straw-
berries and rasp-
berries were on
the ground.
Blackbirds with red
shoulders were
flying about
and many small birds,
some red, some blue;
the woods were full of deer;
and running
everywhere
fresh water—
brooks, rundles,
springs and creeks.”
Reznikoff, Charles. “The English in Virginia, April 1607.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975. Black Sparrow Press, 2005. p. 109.
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“Tonight the wet sky prepared the way with dyes of many colors: gentian, magenta, gold and orange. They dripped into the East, the name for one span of nowhere, as if they too wanted to speak in the dark.”
Howe, Fanny. For Erato: The Meaning of Life. Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 1984. p. 3.
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“Perhaps we like to put our ignorance in a positive light, supposing that but for the Profundity of the phenomenon, we would have knowledge. But there are many reasons for not knowing, and the specialness of the phenomenon is, quite regularly, not the real reason. I am currently ignorant of what caused an unusual rapping noise in the woods last night.”
Churchland, Patricia. The Hornswoggle Problem. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 3, No. 5-6, 1996. p. 406.
Purdue University
“Conceivably one could take the opposite tack, and urge that all real systems have infinitely many degrees of freedom. That leaves no ground to distinguish the two kinds of evolution either.”
Cartwright, Nancy. How the Laws of Physics Lie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010. p. 197.
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Oxford University Press
"’When we survey the whole earth at once, and the several planets that lie within its neighbourhood, we are filled with a pleasing astonish- ment. But if we rise yet higher, and consider the fixed stars as so many vast oceans of flame, that are each attended with a different set of planets, and still discover new firmaments and new lights that are sunk further in those unfathomable depths of ether, so as not to be seen by the strongest of our telescopes, we are lost in such a labyrinth of suns and worlds, and confounded with the immensity and magnificence of nature.’"
Bryson, Norman. "Enhancement and Displacement in Turner." Huntington Library Quarterly 49, no. 1 (1986): p. 57. doi:10.2307/3817191.
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“...you are in any doubt about it is also printed over each of the
numeral ones in the four corners of that same side and it is
wonderful in its promise of a beginning a new order of
centuries from out of the many one beginning with one
and it is all very wonderful as it states unequivocally
that this is legal tender for all debts public and private and
you may believe this i used to believe it too…”
Antin, David. “Real Estate.” Tuning. New York: New Directions, 2001. p. 895
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New Directions Books
"It shows us that the process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results. And it shows us that we not only should not try to assimilate trans womein into a category that remains the same, but that the category itself has to change so it does not simly reflect normative ideas of who counts as women and who doesn't."
Davis, Angela Y.. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. United States, Haymarket Books, 2016. p. 100
Haymarket Books