My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal

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

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

The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.

Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.