Top 40 Linda Hogan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.”

— Linda Hogan

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2. “Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.”

— Linda Hogan

3. “There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”

— Linda Hogan

4. “Between earth and earth’s atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.”

— Linda Hogan

5. “Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers.”

— Linda Hogan

6. “There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.”

— Linda Hogan

7. “Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.”

— Linda Hogan

8. “It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.”

— Linda Hogan

9. “Stories are for people what water is for plants.”

— Linda Hogan

10. “There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.”

— Linda Hogan

11. “I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.”

— Linda Hogan

12. “Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.”

— Linda Hogan

13. “It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.”

— Linda Hogan

14. “The crocodile doesn’t harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.”

— Linda Hogan

15. “Like the water, the earth, the universe, a story is forever unfolding. It floods and erupts. It births new worlds. It is circular as our planet and fluid as the words of the first people who came out from the ocean or out of the cave or down from the sky. Or those who came from a garden where rivers meet and whose god was a tempter to their fall, planning it into their creation along with all the rest.”

— Linda Hogan

16. “I think of that word, power, and what it means. It means you feed your people, you help the world. I never understood what else there was to it.”

— Linda Hogan

17. “What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth’s own elements to wound it.”

— Linda Hogan

18. “There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.”

— Linda Hogan

19. “Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.”

— Linda Hogan

20. “Humans colonizing and conquering others have a propensity for this, for burning behind them what they cannot possess or control, as if their conflicts are not with themselves and their own way of being, but with the land itself.”

— Linda Hogan

21. “We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabulary of science we desire. We want a language of that different yield. A yield rich as the harvests of the earth, a yield that returns us to our own sacredness, to a self-love and resort that will carry out to others.”

— Linda Hogan

22. “Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken of children, and I was one of these, and whatever is was, I can’t name, I can only thank. Perhaps it is the water of life that saves us, after all.”

— Linda Hogan

23. “Let’s kneel down through all the worlds of the body like lovers. I know I am a tree and full of life and I know you, you are the flying one and will leave. But can’t we swallow the sweetness and can’t you sing in my arms and sleep in the human light of the sun and moon I have been drinking alone.”

— Linda Hogan

24. “A bird killed in the name of human power is in truth a loss of power from the world, not an addition to it.”

— Linda Hogan

25. “We make art out of our loss.”

— Linda Hogan

26. “Remembering, in Spanish, means to pass something through the heart again, and now all the years are going through his heart again as he tries to turn away from the ocean. But he hears it and he knows it is out there. Some sleepless nights he goes out. But this night in his sleep he says, “Oh, look at all those beautiful life rafts.”

— Linda Hogan

27. “Surrounded by stone, this body of mine is seen in the dim light for what it is, fragile and brief. The water closes, seamless, around me. My foot with it’s blue-green veins is vulnerable beside this rock-hard world that wants to someday take me in. Can we love what will swallow us when we are gone? I do. I love what will consume us all, the place where the tunneling worms and roots of plants dwell, where the slow deep centuries of earth are undoing and remaking themselves.”

— Linda Hogan

28. “Caretaking is the utmost spiritual and physical responsibility of our time, and perhaps that stewardship is finally our place in the web of life, our work, the solution to the mystery that we are. There are already so many holes in the universe that will never again be filled, and each of them forces us to question why we permitted such loss, such tearing away at the fabric of life, and how we will live with our planet in the future.”

— Linda Hogan

29. “I saw her future in my body and face, and her past was alive in me.”

— Linda Hogan

30. “There are so many beginnings.”

— Linda Hogan

31. “A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.”

— Linda Hogan

32. “Perhaps it was the word “God” that was inviting to me, a word I thought I knew too much about. The one who had tortured Job, who had Abraham lift the ax to his son, who, disguised as a whale, had swallowed Jonah. I know now that the name does not refer to any deity, but means simply to call out and pray, to summon.”

— Linda Hogan

33. “He wakes up and he is not a halfhearted man and he can’t remember why he wakes this way, except that he hears the sound of birds and it is as if behind the human world something else is taking place. The.”

— Linda Hogan

34. “We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin.”

— Linda Hogan

35. “As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I’ve seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice for humans.”

— Linda Hogan

36. “When men decide in their secretly dark or hungry hearts to work their own will, there is little that can stop them. They have inner weather, sometimes unpredictable.”

— Linda Hogan

37. “The people her own age had not ever recovered from the war. The older people are still in the pain of history. Some say it is over, the A’atsika way. It isn’t, Ruth wanted to tell the world that she hangs by her strength. Alone. Don’t be fooled. This is just America happening to us again. She would like to keep them from ruining themselves altogether.”

— Linda Hogan

38. “The real ceremony begins where the formal one ends, when we take up a new way, our minds and hearts filled with the vision of earth that holds us within it, in compassionate relationship to and with our world.”

— Linda Hogan

39. “She was an anchor but at least now she knew it had an end, a stopping place. It hit bottom. She could fall no deeper.”

— Linda Hogan

40. “There were times when the light of the moon had gone out and she felt a great loneliness. It wasn’t for herself. It was for what had happened to the grasses of their land, their waters, not just the massacre there, the slavery, but the killing of the ocean.”

— Linda Hogan

41. “Now they were merely trying to fill themselves up but not with the heart, not the soul. They’d lost both those along the way...”

— Linda Hogan

42. “Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

— Linda Hogan

43. “All the stories live in our bodies, he thinks. Every last one.”

— Linda Hogan

44. “Death is dancing me ragged.”

— Linda Hogan

45. “Our flesh has never been a boundary for the human being. We only reach out from there to occupy the space around us. Even more significantly, it occupies us.”

— Linda Hogan

46. “Remembering place is significant, and that includes each visitor to a place, insect, plant, animal, or the passing shadow of a cloud in golden sunlight.”

— Linda Hogan

47. “She didn’t forgive him, not then. Not really until years later when she realized how men were so influenced by their peers and governments. This was something Ruth, a woman who could stand alone in the world, would never understand.”

— Linda Hogan

48. “To be a hero you always have to betray something or someone.”

— Linda Hogan

49. “Now our bones are revealed like truth.”

— Linda Hogan