If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

It's a landscape that has to be seen to be believed. And, as I say on occasion, it may have to be believed in order to be seen.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.