Edenglassie Quotes

“With that thought, the boy had the electric realisation that all his life he had been eating the decisions of his Ancestors. Every fish, every mudcrab, every ugari or turtle or vegetable or egg or fruit, they all came to him — to all his people — from generations of nurture. None of it was accidental, or random. And if his Old People hadn't cherished the biggest fish and the female turtles, if they hadn't sung up the Country, and protected the fecund of every species since the dawn of time, then he would not have eaten the results from the fire that night. Just as his children and grandchildren still unborn had needed him to release today's Matriarch. The thought consumed him with wonder; it made him feel small, yet at the same time as though he belonged in a universe of meaning; part of a web of ceaseless and sacred connection across thousands of generations.”
― Melissa Lucashenko, Edenglassie

“How all Aboriginal landscapes and peoples and sentient beings were connected across the continent, tied to each other in a thousand ways by names and totems and songs and dances and stories. How everyone somehow belonged to everyone else, before colonisation. Nothing alone, nothing ever in isolation, but always as part of a larger whole extending out to the air and the stars and the planets.”
― Melissa Lucashenko, Edenglassie