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It is here that i can concentrate my mind upon the remembered earth. it is here that i am most conscious of being, here that wonder comes upon my blood, here i want to live forever; and it is no matter that i must die.
-N. Scott Momaday
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It Is Here That I Can Concentrate

N. Scott Momaday
It is here that i can concentrate my mind upon the remembered earth. it is here that i am most conscious of being, here that wonder comes upon my blood, here i want to live forever; and it is no matter that i must die.
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Once in his life, a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, i believe. he ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. he ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. he ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. he ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.
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There were two forests for every one you entered. there was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. the forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. with awe.
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