He wakes up and he is not a halfhearted man and he can’t…

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

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

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

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

Death is dancing me ragged.

— Linda Hogan

“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

We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin

— Linda Hogan

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

“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

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

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

— Linda Hogan

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

— Linda Hogan

“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

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

“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