In her book Tending the Wild, Kat Anderson writes: "the basketry craft, all over California, was more than a mechanical exercise, and baskets were more than utilitarian objects. They were absolutely central in the worldviews, cultures, and everyday lives of native people in California."

From "Meditation on Pedagogy: (Un)Translating Jasper Ridge" by AJ Naddaff, an essay from the "Ecology and Natural History of Jasper Ridge" class at Stanford University (4/4)

This is not what a lot of good scholars say about TEK [Traditional Ecological Knowledge]: indigenous science should be considered an independent way of looking at nature – we should look at them as separate but complementary and there is a lot of potential at Jasper Ridge.” (3/4)

On the other hand, beginners of a new language might translate. If you have a Spanish word, then you translate it into English, try to understand it, and then try to speak in Spanish. (2/4)