power is a rainstorm

The renewable quality - the sacredness of every living thing, that which connects human beings to the place they inhabit - that quality is the single most liberating aspect of our environment. Life is renewable and all the things that support life are renewable, and they are renewed by a force greater than any government's, greater than any living or historical thing. A consciousness of the web that holds all things together, the spiritual element that connects us to reality and the manifestation of that power to renew that is present in the existence of an eagle or a mountain snow fall...

- Chief Oren Lyons, John Mohawk, Jose Barreiro, from Basic Call to Consciousness