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Notable Quotable: Consciousness
Today's quote comes from Chief Oren Lyons, a Native American inspirational leader and Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, speaking to the Non-Governmental Organizations of the United Nations, Geneva Switzerland, in 1977.
Consciousness
I do not see a delegation
For the Four-footed.
I see no seat for the eagles.
We forget and we consider
Ourselves superior.
But we are after all
A mere part of the Creation.
And we must consider
To understand where we are.
And we stand somewhere between
The mountain and the Ant.
Somewhere and only there
As part and parcel
Of the Creation.
Well Street
Wise words spoken by a man connected to the planet and appreciative of all its creatures.
Slipstream
Chief Lyons speaks such truth with this beautiful poem. Man is so arrogant. I think the flying, the four-footed, and even the ant, are far and away more evolved than we two-footers.