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.

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable. If we are to realize and maintain our humanity, we must come to a moral comprehension of earth and air as it is perceived in the long turn of seasons and of years.

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

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

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