Open Plains Quotes by Luther Standing Bear

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Luther Standing Bear has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures…
• White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and…
• Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than…
• Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage"…
• "Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense…
• Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.
• The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for…
• Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell,…
• We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth…
• For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.
• The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being…
• Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world…

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