Bird Quote by Linda Hogan

“The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.” quote by Linda Hogan — Download Open image

“The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.”

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A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the…

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There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay…

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Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a…

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Let's kneel down through all the worlds of the body like lovers. I know I am a tree and full of life and I…

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Death is dancing me ragged.

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“John Hay, in The Immortal Wilderness , has written: 'There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the undercurrents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.' Sometimes I hear it talking. The light of the sunflower…

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We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin

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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land,…

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“Once when I was younger I went out and sat under the sky and looked up and asked it to take me back. What I should have done was gone to the swamp and bog and ask them to bring me back because, if anything is, mud and marsh are the origins of life. Now i think of the storm…

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And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the present, that holds meaning and spiritual significance for so many members of the dominating culture. It has seemed so strange…

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It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

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Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

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