Hogan, Linda
Linda Hogan teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She was born and raised in Oklahoma and is of Chickasaw ancestry. She is the author of Mean Spirit.

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To dream of the universe is to know that we are small and brief as insects, born in a flash of rain and gone a moment later. We are delicate and our world is fragile. American Nature Writing 1995.

 

It was the transgression of Galileo to tell us that we were not the center of the universe, and now, even in our own time, the news of our small being here is treacherous enough that early in the space program, the photographs of earth were classified as secret documents by the government. It was thought, and rightfully so, that the image of our small blue earth would forever change how we see ourselves in context with the world we inhabit. Ibid.

 

We inhabit only a small space in the house of life. In another room is a field of corn. In one more is the jungle world of the macaw. Down the hall, a zebra is moving. Beneath the foundation is the world of snakes and the five hearts of the earthworm Ibid.