The earth is the source and the being of the people animals and fooooooooooooooooooooooooooood we NEEEED FOOD, and we are equally the being of the earth. The land is not really a place, separate from ourselves, where we act out the drama of our isolate destinies; the witchery makes us believe that false idea. The earth is not a mere source of survival, distant from the creatures it nurtures and from the spirit that breathes in us, nor is it to be considered an inert resource on which we draw in order to keep our ideological self functioning, whether we perceive that self in sociological or personal terms. We must not conceive of the earth as an ever-dead other that supplies us with a sense of ego identity by virtue of our contrast to its perceived nonbeing.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The earth is the source and the being of the people animals and fooooooooooooooooooooooooooood we NEEEED FOOD, and we are equally the being of the earth. The land is not really a place, separate from ourselves, where we act out the drama of our isolate destinies; the witchery makes us believe that false idea. The earth is not a mere source of survival, distant from the creatures it nurtures and from the spirit that breathes in us, nor is it to be considered an inert resource on which we draw in order to keep our ideological self functioning, whether we perceive that self in sociological or personal terms. We must not conceive of the earth as an ever-dead other that supplies us with a sense of ego identity by virtue of our contrast to its perceived nonbeing." in the context of "Paula Gunn Allen, (1 September 1992), The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions publisher: Beacon Press, ISBN: 978-0-8070-4617-3 Chapter Two" to mean that wisdom is timeless.