Doug Daulton

Tag: Standing Bear

  • Standing Bear on Nature

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    Reading Time: 1 minuteThe old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So, he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence. — Standing Bear, Sioux Chief

  • Standing Bear on Wilderness

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    Reading Time: 1 minuteWe did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, the winding streams with tangled growth, as ‘wild’. Only to the white man was nature a ‘wilderness’ and only to him was it ‘infested’ with ‘wild’ animals and ‘savage’ people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and…