"There is a great good in returning to……" — N. Scott Momaday
"There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind's eye. They become indispensable to our well-being; they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there."
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31 Quotes by N. Scott Momaday
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself…
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The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and…
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In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.
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To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense…
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He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.
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I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.
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For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our…
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It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And as I say on occasion, it may have…
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Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.
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If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.
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