For us, truly, there are no surroundings. I can lose my hands and still live. I can lose my legs and still live. I can lose my eyes and still live... But if I lose the air I die. If I lose the sun I die. If I lose the plants and animals I die. All this things are more part of me. more essential to my every breath, than is my so called body. What is my real body?
We are not autonomous self-sufficient beings as European methodology teaches... We are rooted just like the trees. But our roots come out of our nose and mouth, like an umbilical chord forever connected to the rest of the world.
Jack B. Forbes, Professor Emerits of Native American Studies U.C. Davis
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