103 quotes
What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it. ("Deify the Wolf" p66)
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World (1995)
"The law is on their side because it's their law." (p111)
Mean Spirit (1990)
Even the land gives in to history. (from Prologue)
People of the Whale (2008)
They stared ahead, into another future. (p342)
Mean Spirit (1990)
Worlds are made of lies and dreams (p 200)
The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir (2001)
We are, in part, the body of earth (p 206)
The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir (2001)
She was a faith healer, of sorts.
By that, I mean she always held a cure
for hopelessness, could lay a hand
on misery and make it smile
could ever hold.
The Book of Medicines (1993)
Something must hold me this way,
and you,
and the thin blue tail of the galaxy,
to keep us from leaving
as life unfolds behind us
over long roads and intricate, human waters.
The Book of Medicines (1993)
One life does not fit neatly into the other always. Creative work is a way to order it.
Survival This Way by Joseph Bruchac (1987)
First books, for many people, seem to be sort of autobiographical incursions into who they are, and what it means to be who they are.
Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson (1998)
even stars come apart
in the play of universal wind.
Rounding the Human Corners (2008)
I think protest and legal actions lack the emotions, the feelings of the people, and story is a way to touch the heart. It often carries a weight that the grey language of law lacks.
with Marilyn Kallet (1993)
I suppose it takes a life-time of reflection and thought to move a writer in a certain direction.
Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson (1998)
I never wanted to be a writer, either, but I suppose we each find a calling and fall into it.
Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson (1998)
A bird killed in the name of human power is in truth a loss of power from the world, not an addition to it. ("The Feathers" p15)
Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World (1995)
"Why are only white laws followed? This will kill the world. What is the law if not the earth's?" (p283)
Solar Storms (1994)
The people her own age had not ever recovered from the war. The older people are still in the pain of history. (p64)
People of the Whale (2008)
I love all animals and nature. I just find that the more I learn about the world the more exciting and fascinating it all is.
Conversations with the World by Phebe Davidson (1998)
All the stories live in our bodies, he thinks. Every last one. (p116)
People of the Whale (2008)
It is a life of constant observation and learning. Sometimes, other than love and tenderness for our own, what else is there to learn in this world for us?
with ‘’Fiction Advocate (2023)