Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to the earth. the earth welcomes the body-coaxes new life and beauty from it, hurries over what men shudder at. Lovely tender herbage bursts from the graves, swiftly, exulting over corruption.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them.

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

Up came the sun, and drank the dew.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.