Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have to be… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
It is here that I can concentrate my mind upon the Remembered Earth. It is here that I am most conscious of being, here… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.' — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population.” — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image