"For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly."

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Source : Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

Luther Standing Bear

#Native American Quotes #Friendly Quotes #Wilderness Quotes

“The best thing that's ever happened to me is my daughter. To be a Mom is the best thing in the world. You know, that's all I really wanted to do after I had finished doing films.”
“Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born.”
“I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.”
“I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.”
“Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.”
“Yeah, you always have to be there and remind people of you. It's complicated when you do music, or when you do anything in general. You need time. I don't know if it's because of the weather or what, but [Canadians] seem to have a relationship to time that I like very much.”
“It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.”
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.”

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