Quotation by

Charles Eastman

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

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Charles Eastman means that his people did not build man-made places for worship or rituals. Instead, they found spiritual meaning and sacredness directly in the natural world around them.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.