"The old people came literally to love the……" — Luther Standing Bear
"The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing."
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Luther Standing Bear
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21 Quotes by Luther Standing Bear
Luther Standing Bear has 21 quotes on this site.
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The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of…
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White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the…
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Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old…
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Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals…
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"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to…
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Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.
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The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of…
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Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs…
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We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as…
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For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.
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Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and…
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Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.
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