Quotes About Indigenous Knowledge

#1. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flowers, and so many grade school teachers are single.

Daniel Handler

#2. The problem now is that young people, young indigenous people, are not so interested in preserving traditional knowledge. So for them, seeing that it was important for us and for the outside world, this traditional knowledge, it was a big deal to them.

Ciro Guerra

#3. How is it that these two boys who are so different are connected in such unexpected, deep ways? Maybe we all are, I think, and we don't know how to see it anymore.

Ally Condie

#4. For centuries, cultures throughout the world have used indigenous technologies to navigate life's complexities. From navigator-priests in Micronesia to mystics in India, vast sums of knowledge are available if we but recognize it.

Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

#5. Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

Joe Elliott

#6. Our indigenous herbalists say to pay attention when plants come to you; they're bringing you something you need to learn.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#7. The most important lesson he taught me was that there was no one singular perspective on things or emotions in the universe - no one way of comprehending truth.

Anchee Min

#8. I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.

Norman Mailer

#9. I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.

Ally Carter

#10. I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

Lil' Wayne