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.

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

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

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

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