“To be patient, to pay attention to the world that is not yourself, is the first step in the neophyte’s discovery of the larger world outside the self, the landscape in which wisdom itself abides. Other residents of the world… know more than we do about how to survive whatever is coming. Their investment is not in progress but in stability.”

— Barry Lopez, retelling a teaching of Koyukon elder Lavine Williams

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