Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves.

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.