Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Marilou Awiakta

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Cherokee author Marilou Awiakta.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Marilou Awiakta

Marilou Awiakta is a poet whose perspective fuses her Cherokee, Scots-Irish, and Appalachian heritage with experiences of growing up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on the atomic frontier. She is internationally known for her poetry and cultural essays.

When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live. — © Marilou Awiakta
When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live.
Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred law and covenant with Mother Earth; Respectful care brings abundance. If you take, you must give back-Return the gift.
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