Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in ….

The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen..

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 secon….

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an over….

The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be taken for granted; you feel that ….

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

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be boug….

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

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..

It is here that I can concentrate my mind upon the Remembered Earth. It is here that I am most conscious of being, here that wonder comes upon my blo….

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

There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one's life. It happens that we return to such places in our m….

Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And a….

To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand fo….

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantitie….

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

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it..

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 e….

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

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

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 wh….