Welcome to Eric Zachary Whitten's Online Art Gallery

“You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale.”                                 Wallace Stegner

“The great dark trees of the Big Woods stood all around the house, and beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees. As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there was nothing but woods. There were no houses. There were no roads. There were no people. There were only trees and the wild animals who had their homes among them.”                                                                       Laura Ingalls Wilder

“The white man does not understand...America. He is too far removed from its formative processes. The roots of the tree of his life have not yet grasped the rock and the soil. The white man is still troubled with primitive fears; he still has in his consciousness the perils of this continent, some of its vastness not yet having yielded to his questing footsteps and inquiring eyes. He shudders still with the memory of the loss of his forefathers upon its scorching deserts and forbidding mountain-tops. The man from Europe is still a foreigner and an alien...Men must be born and reborn to belong. Their bodies must be formed of the dust of their forefathers bones.”                                                                        Luther Standing Bear