even the sky had a voice

“Living with my Indian friends I found I was a stranger in my native land. As time went on the outward aspect of nature remained the same but a change was wrought in me. I learned to hear the echos of a time when every living thing, even the sky had a voice, that voice devoutly heard by the ancient people of america, I desired to make audible to others.” Alice Cunningham Flether Chairman of the Manageing Board of the School of American Research (1907-1912)