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Upon Quotes by N. Scott Momaday
- Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape…
- To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
- There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The…
- To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they…
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