It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.
When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then
We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one's family.
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man. . . cannot be exempt from the common destiny.
Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.
The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.
I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality. You are always representing human beings, their fears, their shortcomings, their braveries, their doubts, their loves, their abilities, their brilliance and those things inevitably lead to bigger political systems, foreign policy and crime and religion. It's an action film. We are not taking a stance about big government.
Having kids doesn't mean they would have taken care o you.
I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me my own serious-mindedness and how ridiculous it all is. It's always easier to see somebody else in that position than yourself, and you laugh. It's like the classic slipping on the banana peel, or someone getting hit by a pie in the face. Why do those things make us laugh? Is it from relief, like: Thank God it wasn't me? Or is it something else: I'm being very serious now. I'm pontificating earnestly and solemnly about-POW! PIE IN THE FACE! The bust-up of certainty.