"A skull is the ultimate track a creature leaves. When everything else has been unshaped by time, when every scratch and print is gone, the skull remains." Page 7.

"I asked him once why he was so still at times, and he said, 'To see better.'" Page 11.

"He never gave me a direct answer, and when he had something to teach us, he arranged it so that it was something we suddenly needed desperately to know." Page 20.

"I carried my lab kit with me everywhere. A three inch magnifying glass, a test tube for samples, tweezers, and my knife. We took specimens like a landing party from Venus." Page 33.

"Good medicine is any experience so memorable that it just has to be a gift from the spirit-that-moves-through-all-things." Page 34.

"As long as we were in tune with nature, we were invulnerable. The whole of our belief system depended on...