Balance is not a passive resting place–it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in.

Robin Wall Kimmerer
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  2. When a language dies, so much more than words are lost. Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world. Tom says that even words as basic as numbers are imbued...

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