“When we are surrounded by such diversity - in nature, in culture, in human spirit - how can we stand not to acknowledge it?”

“If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because theyre not feminist enough, then weve failed before weve begun.”

“Some critics of trans people have told us that we shouldnt feel this pain of being denied the legitimacy of our own selves; gender is, of course, just a social construct. I wonder if these people a...”

“By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand, and suggests that theres no point in trying.”

“We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we dont see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.”

“Even when we are confused about someones gender, and dont have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we have a choice to respond with kindness rather than cruelty.”

“When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, and inspiratrice, and intuitive, a maker, a ...”

“One thing we have learned is this: bringing compassionate, unflinching awareness to gender dynamics in groups and communities is a remarkably powerful place to begin. As in all spiritual practice, ...”

“Everything is melting in nature. We think we see objects, but our eyes are slow and partial. Nature is blooming and withering in long puffy respirations, rising and falling in oceanic wave-motion. ...”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”

“Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are consider...”

“Language disguises thought.”

“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”