Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

If we are going to allow somebody to request a recount, the intent obviously is that you expect a recount to be included.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.