Great saying by great authors Quote by Henry David Thoreau

This was the kind of man thatwas at home there; for, as near as I can learn, that has never been the residence, but…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Here he sensed there was nothing in the landscape but itself. He was delighted at this liberation from history. The trees, the meadows, the…

— Anurag Mathur

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

— Henry David Thoreau

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

— Chief Joseph

“It was the Indian manner to vanish into the landscape, not to stand out against it. The Hopi villages that were set upon rock…

— Willa Cather

“bear. My armor dissolves. This is not happy India. This is the country where, as Mark Twain observed, every life is sacred, except human…

— Eric Weiner

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more…

— Henry David Thoreau

Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than…

— John Muir

The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to…

— Doug Peacock

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

— Philip Sheridan

“Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere.”

— Tommy Orange

The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus…

— Susanna Moodie