Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.

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

It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.

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

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.