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Quotes from The Way to Rainy Mountain — N. Scott Momaday

1934–2024

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The sun is at home on the plains. Precisely there does it have the certain character of a god.

The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

The imaginative experience and the historical express equally the traditions of man's reality.

The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

And the journey is an evocation of... a landscape that is incomparable, a time that is gone forever, and the human spirit, which endures.

The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

There is a perfect freedom in the mountains, but it belongs to the eagle and the elk, the badger and the bear. The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see...

The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

There have been times when I thought I understood how it was that a man might be moved to preserve the bones of a horse—and another to steal them away.

The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

I know how much he loved that animal; I think I know what was going on in his mind: If you will give me my life and the life of my family, I will give you the life of this black-eared horse.

The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: N. Scott Momaday (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.