The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox.…

What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying pa…

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the 'things' of that particular country: leaves, f…

Gorau Cymro tro trylew Biau'r wlad, lin Bywer Lew, Gwr meingryf, gorau mangre, A phiau'r llys; hoff yw'r lle.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.