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61 " But there was something else now, as Betonie said: it was everything they had seen—the cities, the tall buildings, the noise and the lights, the power of their weapons and machines. They were never the same after that: they had seen what the white people had made from the stolen land. "
― Leslie Marmon Silko , Ceremony
62 " The word he chose to express “fragile” was filled with the intricacies of a continuing process, and with a strength inherent in spider webs woven across paths through sand hills where early in the morning the sun becomes entangled in each filament of web. It took a long time to explain the fragility and intricacy because no word exists alone, and the reason for choosing each word had to be explained with a story about why it must be said this certain way. That was the responsibility that went with being human. "
63 " Then they grow away from the earththen they grow away from the sunthen they grow away from the plants and animals.They see no lifeWhen they lookthey see only objects.The world is a dead thing for themthe trees and rivers are not alive "
64 " Whirling darknesshas come back on itself.It keeps all its witcheryto itself. "
65 " Josiah said that only humans had to endure anything, because only humans resisted what they saw outside themselves. "