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….

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….

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 ….

There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. Th….

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….

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

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..

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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….