Robert Bringhurst Quotes

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession.

Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.

History provides no precise guidelines.

The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played a subtle but important role in my development.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

Our land is our memory.

The land was ours before we belonged to the land.

The Indians are acknowledged to have an unquestionable … right to the lands they occupy.

The classics should be set in students’ minds so that they become the genes of Chinese national culture.

My continent knows more about me than I do myself.

Aboriginal art and culture draws from the land, for Aboriginality and the land are essential to each other and are inseparable.

I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.

People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.

Civilisations which get cut off from their traditions and values do not survive for long.

It's time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous; we are blessed as a country to look to the wisdom of a really old country.

We all have to consciously make efforts to identify our roots and nurture them.