#23

“The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.”

Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge p. 21

#22

“Well, words are powerful beyond our knowledge, certainly. And they are beautiful. Words are intrinsically powerful, I believe. And there is magic in that. Words come from nothing into being. They are created in the imagination and given life on the human voice.”

N. Scott Momaday, interviewed in Creators on Creating

#21

“I have known five of my great grandparents intimately. They tutored me in stories with a belief that the lineage mattered. Genealogy is in our blood. As a people and as a family, we have a sense of history. And our history is tied to land…Our attachment to the land was our attachment to each other.”

Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge