There was something about the way the old man said the word "comfortable." It had a different meaning--not… — Leslie Marmon Silko
There was something about the way the old man said the word "comfortable." It had a different meaning--not the comfort of big houses or rich food or even clean streets, but the comfort of belonging with the land, and the peace of being with these hills. (p108)
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[He] said that only humans had to endure anything, because only humans resisted what they saw outside themselves. Animals did not resist. But they persisted, because they became part of the wind. (p24)
"...as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together." (p215)
...Then they grow away from the earth
then they grow away from the sun
then they grow away from the plants and the animals.
They see no life
When they look
they see only objects.
The world is a dead thing for them
the trees and the rivers are not alive.
the mountains and stones are not alive.
The deer and bear are objects
They see no life. They fear
They fear the world.
They destroy what they fear.
They fear themselves...
p. 125
