"The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged...."

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Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.247, U of Nebraska Press

Luther Standing Bear

#Native American Quotes #Men Quotes #Hands Quotes

“"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.258, U of Nebraska Press
“But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps itâ€™s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise wonâ€™t come true.”
“It seems that the most fearful people in our country are those who don't travel and are metaphorically barricaded in America. If we all stayed home and built more walls and fewer bridges between us and the rest of the world, eventually we would have something to actually be fearful of.”
“Women are women, and hurray for that.”
“Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.”
“No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.”
“The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.”
“Brand is not what you say it is. Itâ€™s what they say it is.”

Source : Marty Neumeier (2015). “The Brand Flip: Why customers now run companies and how to profit from it”, p.13, New Riders

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