This is an excerpt from The Man Who Killed the Deer by Frank Waters. Or take a kernel of corn. Plant it in Our Mother Earth with the sweat of your body, with what you know of the times and seasons, with your proper prayers. And with your strength and manhood Our Father Sun multiplies and gives it back into your flesh. It is not a simple thing.
Nothing is simple and alone.
We are not separate and alone. Nothing that any of us does but affects us all. So I would have you look upon this thing not as a separate simple thing, but as a stone which is a star in the firmament of earth, as a ripple in a pool, as a kernel of corn. I would have you consider how it fits into the pattern of the whole. How far its influence may spread.