Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.
Luther Standing BearFor the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.
Luther Standing BearThe old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
Luther Standing BearThe man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.
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