Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.

Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

May you always walk in Beauty.

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.