Something of our relationship to the earth is determined by the particular place we stand at a given time. If you stand still long enough to observe … - N. Scott Momaday

If you stand still long enough to observe carefully the things around you, you will find beauty, and you will know wonder.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

A Witness to Creation

If you could have that one day back, the one that
you have kept a secret in your soul, what day would it be?
What? One among the many? Well, let me make you this offering:

It would be the day on which I stood on the rim of Monument Valley and beheld
those ineffable monoliths for the first time. I was young, you see, like a fledgling
who leaves the nest and flies out over the earth. I saw beyond time, into
timelessness. It was the first and holiest of all days. On such a day — on that original day — did the First Man behold the First World. It filled
him with wonder and humility. Then and there, looking for one enchanted
moment into eternity, I was the First Man. I was present at Creationl

In the winter dusk I heard coyotes barking away by the river, the sound of the drums in the , and the voice of the village crier, ringing at the rooftops.