Foggy Fall forest at Pinnacles Overlook, Shenandoah NP
"Listen to the air.
You can hear it, feel it,
Smell it, taste it.
Woniya wakan, the holy air,
which renews all by its breath.
Woniya wakan, spirit, life, breath, renewal,
It means all that.
We sit together, don’t touch,
but something is there;
We feel it between us
As a presence.
A good way to start thinking about nature,
talk about it.
Rather talk to it, talk to the rivers, to the lakes, to the winds
as to our relatives."
- John Fire Lame Deer (20th Century Lakota Sioux spiritual leader and social activist)
