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.
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me. - N. Scott Momaday
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.
- N. Scott Momaday
The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred. - N. Scott Momaday
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… - N. Scott Momaday
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…
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… - N. Scott Momaday
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…
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. - N. Scott Momaday
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.
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 … - N. Scott Momaday
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 …
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… - N. Scott Momaday
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. - N. Scott Momaday
The landscape of the American West has to be seen to believed and has to be believed to be seen.
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. - N. Scott Momaday
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.
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