"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature." ― Charles Eastman Topic(s): Nature More From Charles Eastman "In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees." "Friendship is held to be the severest test of character." "The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand." More In Nature "The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."― William James "Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad."― Thomas Paine "There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before."― Robert Wilson Lynd