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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
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"Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul."
"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."
"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
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"In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees."
"The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand."
"He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's."
"No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people."
"More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material."
"The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church."
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