"Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems."

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Source : Joy Harjo (2004). “How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

Joy Harjo

#Animal Quotes #Tree Quotes #Alive Quotes

“He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.”
“There was no excuse for Dallas Cowboys to lose to Washington. Rivalry or not, Redskins are a bad team.”
“If there is gossip to be garnered, garner it. If there are new dress styles to be imitated, imitate them. If there are hearts to be broken, break them. That's my girls.”
“I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.”
“So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.”

Source : "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.
“Not everyone's going to like my music. People might not like my music, because I'm just not their style of music that they like to listen to.”
“Trust works both ways”
“The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.”

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