Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen.… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough,… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“Like the water, the earth, the universe, a story is forever unfolding. It floods and erupts. It births new worlds. It is… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“Surrounded by stone, this body of mine is seen in the dim light for what it is, fragile and brief. The water… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“Once when I was younger I went out and sat under the sky and looked up and asked it to take me… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“[T]he old stories of human relationships with animals can't be discounted. They are not primitive; they are primal. They reflect insights that… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“What finally turned me back toward the older traditions of my own [Chickasaw] and other Native peoples was the inhumanity of the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there are events and things that work as a doorway into a mythical world, the world of first people, all the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“The Fallen It was the night a comet with its silver tail fell through darkness to earth's eroded field, the night I… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay… — Linda Hogan Copy Share
Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a… — Linda Hogan Copy Share
Let's kneel down through all the worlds of the body like lovers. I know I am a tree and full of life and I… — Linda Hogan Copy Share
“John Hay, in The Immortal Wilderness , has written: 'There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water,… — Linda Hogan Copy Share
We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin — Linda Hogan Copy Share
It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land,… — Linda Hogan Copy Share
“Once when I was younger I went out and sat under the sky and looked up and asked it to take me back. What… — Linda Hogan Copy Share
And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because… — Linda Hogan Copy Share
It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. — Linda Hogan Copy Share
“Perhaps it was the word "God" that was inviting to me, a word I thought I knew too much about. The one who had… — Linda Hogan Copy Share
Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own… — Linda Hogan Copy Share
“What finally turned me back toward the older traditions of my own [Chickasaw] and other Native peoples was the inhumanity of the Western world,… — Linda Hogan Copy Share
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