"Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world……" — Luther Standing Bear

"Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library."

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21 Quotes by Luther Standing Bear

Luther Standing Bear has 21 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…
White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the…
Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old…
Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals…
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to…
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…
Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs…
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as…
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…
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and…

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