A hero isn’t a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe.
I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.
...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating wha...
The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara ch...
After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe version of a pulse, but that life consisted for the most part of travelers like myself. There were maybe a dozen of us -- one th...
In a world of fog and gray, the youth is a shining being dressed in dark violet, his golden-flecked hair smoothed back from his bronzed temples. He resembles a human, but no man I have ever seen holds himself like a king, like a gleaming statue chise...
We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, in one form or another, are trying to make sense of the world around us. And all of these elements li...
Siddhartha wants liberation, Dante wants Beatrice, Frodo wants to get to Mount Doom—we all want something. Quest is elemental to the human experience. All road narratives are to some extent built on quest. If you’re a woman, though, this fundamen...
Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.
I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.
I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in.
The un-people, the anti-tribe, humanity's sack unpicked and sewn together again with the moon inside.
All the other chiefs and tribes have accepted the Great Law of Peace. They now live in peace with one another.
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
