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• Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to…
• The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a…
• Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store…
• In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.
• To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
• He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.
• I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.
• For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and…
• There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we…
• It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have to be…
• Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

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