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From Gathering Moss by RWK
In indigenous ways of knowing, it is understood that each living being has a particular role to play. Every being is endowed with certain gifts, its own intelligence, its own spirit, its own story. Our stories tell us that the Creator gave these to us, as original instructions. The foundation of education is to discover that gift within us and learn to use it well.”
― Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
There's more on gifts and reciprocity:
“The combination of circumstances which allows it to exist at all are so implausible that Schistostega is rendered much more precious than gold. Goblins’ or otherwise. Not only does its presence depend on the coincidence of the cave’s angle to the sun, but if the hills on the western shore were any higher the sun would set before reaching the cave. But for that small fact there would be no glitter. And only by virtue of the westerly winds steadily beating against the shore are there caves for Schistostega at all. Its life and ours exist only because of a myriad of synchronicities that bring us to this particular place at this particular moment. In return for such a gift, the only sane response is to glitter in reply.”
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