Shoshone Quotes

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies. (Roy Blount)
The Shoshone did not wage war, because it served no purpose. View quote
Peter Farb
The Shoshone, as well as those peoples around the world who still survive at the least complex levels of social organization, know that romantic love exists. But they also recognize it for what it is-in their case, a form of madness. ...they regard the participants with tolerance and patience, for they know that the illness will soon go away. ...To them, only someone mentally backward would base an institution so important to survival as marriage on romantic love. ...it is a life and death business. View quote
Peter Farb
Complex civilization is hectic... such hunters and collectors of wild food as the Shoshone are among the most leisured people on earth. View quote
Peter Farb