From "Talking to Owls and Butterflies"
"Let us sit down here, all of us, on the open prairie, where we can't see a highway or a fence. Let's have no blanket to sit on, but feel the ground with our bodies, the earth, the yeilding shrubs Let's have the grass for a mattress, experiencing its sharpness and its softness. Let us become like stones, plants, and trees. Let us be animals, think and feel like animals."
"Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it. Woniya wakan --the holy air-- which renews all by its breath. Woniya, woniya wakan -- spirit, life, breath, renewal -- it means all that. Woniya -- we sit together, don't touch, but something is there, we feel it between us, as a presence. A good way to start thinking about nature, talk about it. Rather talk to it, talk to the rivers, to the lakes, to the winds as to our relatives." -- Tahca Ushte (Lame Deer)
Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions: The Life of a Souix Medicine Man, by John Fire (Lame Deer) and Richard Erdoes, Simon and Schuster, 1972
"Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it. Woniya wakan --the holy air-- which renews all by its breath. Woniya, woniya wakan -- spirit, life, breath, renewal -- it means all that. Woniya -- we sit together, don't touch, but something is there, we feel it between us, as a presence. A good way to start thinking about nature, talk about it. Rather talk to it, talk to the rivers, to the lakes, to the winds as to our relatives." -- Tahca Ushte (Lame Deer)
Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions: The Life of a Souix Medicine Man, by John Fire (Lame Deer) and Richard Erdoes, Simon and Schuster, 1972