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... told me . A single quote : such a small thing , and yet , because of it , I would never again see my profession — heck , why not admit it , my addiction — in exactly the same way . Taking a sip of scotch , I had to smile as I remembered ...
... told me . A single quote : such a small thing , and yet , because of it , I would never again see my profession — heck , why not admit it , my addiction — in exactly the same way . Taking a sip of scotch , I had to smile as I remembered ...
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... told me Western science was like Frankenstein's monster ; it had no soul , and without a soul there could be no respect . In his view science , as far as land use and management of natural resources go , has caused more problems than it ...
... told me Western science was like Frankenstein's monster ; it had no soul , and without a soul there could be no respect . In his view science , as far as land use and management of natural resources go , has caused more problems than it ...
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... told him . " We all need to pay more attention to geology , to the processes of planet earth . Our society , our very lives depend on it . " " My people pay attention , " he earnestly replied . " They always have . What Will Durant said ...
... told him . " We all need to pay more attention to geology , to the processes of planet earth . Our society , our very lives depend on it . " " My people pay attention , " he earnestly replied . " They always have . What Will Durant said ...
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... told him I used lots of slides and overhead transparencies . Earth Walks , however , would introduce the lecture and con- tribute material where relevant . During Earth Walks ' part of this first presentation , I started to realize that ...
... told him I used lots of slides and overhead transparencies . Earth Walks , however , would introduce the lecture and con- tribute material where relevant . During Earth Walks ' part of this first presentation , I started to realize that ...
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... told him . This statement received a growl followed by a long , hard look . " If that's so , " he barked , " they have come to the wrong place . " After we had been introduced , Earth Walks , dressed in a beaded Western - style shirt ...
... told him . This statement received a growl followed by a long , hard look . " If that's so , " he barked , " they have come to the wrong place . " After we had been introduced , Earth Walks , dressed in a beaded Western - style shirt ...
Contents
| 11 | |
PEOPLE OF THE PAYS DEN HAUT | 33 |
EARTH ROOTS | 61 |
THE WOLFS HEAD | 81 |
MAKERS OF THE MAGIC SMOKE | 137 |
THE TALKING SKY | 167 |
THE NEVERENDING CIRCLE | 197 |
Bibliography | 203 |
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Popular passages
Page 80 - The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the source of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.
Page 96 - It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Page 192 - You know Orion always comes up sideways. Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains, And rising on his hands, he looks in on me Busy outdoors by lantern-light with something I should have done by daylight, and indeed, After the ground is frozen, I should have done Before it froze, and a gust flings a handful Of waste leaves at my smoky lantern chimney To make fun of my way of doing things, Or else fun of Orion's having caught me.
Page 95 - I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.
Page 64 - With this sacred pipe you will walk upon the Earth; for the Earth is your Grandmother and Mother, and She is sacred. Every step that is taken upon Her should be as a prayer. The bowl of this pipe is of red stone; it is the Earth. Carved in the stone and facing the center is this buffalo calf who represents all the four leggeds who live upon your Mother.
Page 167 - Newton's third law of motion- that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Page 165 - A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Page 4 - Tecumseh, with great indignity of expression, "the sun is my father, and the earth is my mother; and on her bosom I will repose;" and immediately seated himself, in the Indian manner, upon the ground.* The fight at Tippecanoe followed soon after.
Page 13 - I blow my breath," said the old man, "and the streams stand still. The water becomes stiff and hard as clear stone." "I breathe," said the young man, "and flowers spring up all over the plains." "I shake my locks," retorted the old man, "and snow covers the land.