17 Quotes by Luther Standing Bear

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

As a child I understood how to give, I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized. -.

Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.