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

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

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

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

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

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.

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