N Scott Momaday Quotes

“To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.”
― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

“East of my grandmother's house the sun rises out of the plain. Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.”
― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain