“The earth is an agent of regeneration. Death is transformed into life through a reunification of the corn mother’s body with the earth. Even death therefore results in a higher good” (133).

“We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as ‘wild.’ Only the white man was nature a wilderness and only to him was the land ‘infested’ with ‘wild animals and ‘savage’ people. To us it was tame, Earth was bountiful..” (145)- Chief Luther Standing Bear

“In the Western tradition it is fallen nature in opposition to which male science and technology are directed. The good state that keeps unruly nature in check is invented, engineered, and operated by men. The good economy that organizes the labor needed to restore the garden is likewise a male-directed project”. (137)