Aboriginal Quotes

80 quotes by 62 authors

For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of… — David Abram
Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot. — Paul Watson
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too,… — Huston Smith
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country:… — Bruce Chatwin
It is impossible to restore the sustainable societies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples. But the values they embodied - careful stewardship of the earth, modest… — Jeremy Seabrook
My family came to Australia on the First Fleet. My familyâ€™s been in that country for a long time, over 100 years. If your familyâ€™s… — Iggy Azalea
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name… — Walt Whitman
The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red… — Richard Allen
So what is the Dreaming? I would say the Dreaming is a non-indigenous term used in its broadest sense to describe the stories of our… — Hetti Perkins
The concepts of community and community life, have since the Dreaming, always held special significance for Aboriginal people because both provided the physical, cultural, spiritual… — Ken Wyatt
As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision… — Ken Wyatt
Beyond Bookchinâ€, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; â€œWe are inclined… — Marshall Sahlins
Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature. — David Suzuki
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for… — Quentin Bryce
In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health Department sent around… — Archie Kalokerinos
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed… — Jay Griffiths
The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications… — Manly Hall
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a… — Karl Marx
Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena. — Mary Hunter Austin
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The… — Theodore Roosevelt

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