It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves. — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the… — 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
