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“Songs weren’t composed but received whole from animals, plants, or storms. Antelope gave mothers lullabies, thunder and wind gave medicine songs, bears taught hunting songs.” (At crow fair, p. 157)

“There is nothing in nature that can’t be taken as a sign of both morality and invigoration. Cascading water equates loss followed by loss, a momentum of things falling in the direction of death, then life.”

“People have asked in the past, ‘What do you do out there? Don’t you get bored?’ The problem seems to be something else. There’s too much of everything here. I can’t pace myself to it.”

“Disfigurement is synonymous with the whole idea of a frontier. As soon as we lay our hands on it, the freedom we thought it represented is quickly gone.”

“I laughed at myself, then went inside and wrote to a friend: ‘True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere’.”