Nearness to nature ... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. - Charles Eastman

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man.

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.