The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

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

The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.

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

After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.

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

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.