Children Quote by Paul Goble

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful…

— Luther Standing Bear

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

— Luther Standing Bear

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

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

— Luther Standing Bear

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

— Luther Standing Bear

“In Conclusion, let us inquire what has been and what is to be the Meaning of the Great Plains in American Life”

— Anonymous

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity;…

— John Muir

“Crossing the prairie he had learned something that he knew to be a contradiction: that a constant sound—like the slithering of wind-blown grass—can become…

— Mark Warren

“...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

“In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. There the wild animals wandered and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed…

— Luther Standing Bear

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull,…

— Buffalo Bill