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.

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

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

Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood

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

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.

The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.