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Riding is an exercise of the mind. I dreamed a good deal on the back of my horse, going out into the hills alone.

— N. Scott Momaday In the Presence of the Sun (1992)

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Every six or seven years there is a great harvest of piñones far to the east of town. That harvest, like the deer in the mountains, is the gift of God.

House Made of Dawn (1968)

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Nothing will come of [evolution], as it has come from nothing.

In the Bear's House (1999)

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)

The stories that I keep close... are those that yield more and more of their spirit in time.

The Man Made of Words (1997)

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Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you.

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

Simone Weil

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