103 quotes
I was struck by the fact that Native American tradition is to recognize Spirit in everything. I started to look at the natural world a little differently.
Walk Gently Upon the Earth (2010)
I pick these events and make them stories because only then will people listen. If I carry a sign, I am ignored. So I do it in the work.
There is always, to everything, a before and after. (p 201)
The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir (2001)
There are traditions and laws that are beyond human. Just because it is drawn up on a piece of paper doesn't make something right, legal, ethical. I consider my own work to be traditionally centered.
live
so nothing will be left
for death at the end
The Book of Medicines (1993)
The real place of writing is to make change in the world, and it's a very powerful medium.
Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson (1998)
Whatever it is that people believe about the lives of writers only applies to writers who have great incomes, I believe.
Superstition Review (2013)
Waking today
just before winter
when I try to name the color of grasses,
how I feel their beauty,
there is no word.
Rounding the Human Corners (2008)
It took men quite a while to have the courage to look at things differently.
with Terrain.org (1999)
Would it have been a different world if someone had believed our lives were as important as theory and gold? (Chapter 7, p179)
Power (1999)
How absolutely amazing all the life forms and their origins.
Superstition Review (2013)
There's nothing that can really prepare a person for a novel. It's not, for me, a static form of writing, but a process of seeing what will unfold, even a novel rooted in history as this one is.
I am done with weeping.
The bones of this body say, dance.
Dance the story of life
Seeing through the Sun (1985)
It is more about murder and theft, the true stories of what happened during the Oklahoma oil boom.
Superstition Review (2013)
In the first light
I remember who rewards me for living,
not bosses
but singing birds and blue sky
Savings (1988)
To walk on this earth is to walk on a living past, on the open pages of history and geology. ("Creations" p79)
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World (1995)
Beekeepers have a saying that honey begins with a drop of sugar, and misery starts with a mote of dust. (p 312)
Mean Spirit (1990)
This is the place where clouds are born and I am floating. (beginning of Chapter 1)
Power (1999)
Whatever has ended, whatever has begun, is strong in the air. (Chapter 3, p73)
Power (1999)
Believing and knowing are two lands distant from each other. (Chapter 2, p40)
Power (1999)