American indian Quote by Luther Standing Bear Download Open image “Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.” — Luther Standing Bear ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare American indian Best nature Environment Environmental Indian Indian culture Lakota Man and nature Men Modern culture Native Native america Native american Native american indian Native american indian inspirational Native wisdom Nature Rolling hills Standing White White man Wild west Wilderness
“Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed… — Chief Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
“We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth, as 'wild'. Only to… — Paul Goble Copy Share Image
For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
White man came across the sea. He brought us pain and misery. He killed our tribes killed our creed. He took our game for… — Iron Maiden Copy Share Image
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
“...I found myself questioning many assumptions about 'nature' and 'wilderness' that were common in conservation at the time. Were all introduced species really bad?… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
“...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed feelings about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The Whites always mean well when they take human fish out of the ocean and try to make them dry and warm and happy… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Two whole continents, North America and Australia, had been made virtually as white in blood as the European motherland; two other continents, South America… — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share Image
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice,… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Men must be born and reborn to belong. Their bodies must be formed of the dust of their forefathers bones. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I told my friend - we were working on a movie together - and he gave me a script and asked me to give… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages -… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come? — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will stand that… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
“The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.” — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the… — Donald Wildmon Copy Share Image
