the more I observe the world, the more I learn about it, the more I think that there's a vast terrestrial intelligence all around us. - Linda Hogan

the land, is the oldest part of me and the wisest. The part that can survive. All of us Indian writers are historically a part of the whole body of our nations' histories and places, wherever we may do our writing, in New York City or at Rosebud.

From my many grandmothers, I learned how I came from a circle of courageous women and strong men who had walls pulled down straight in front of them until the circle closed, the way rabbits are hunted in a narrowing circle, but some lived, some survived this narrowing circle of life. (chapter seven, p107)

it has always been Ama’s skill to live with the world and not against it. (p47)