We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.

 

Hildegard of Bingen (1098 CE-1179CE), Hildegard of Bingen (German: Hildegard von Bingen), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She has been considered by a number of scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.