I have always loved this declaration, especially because I thought it was originated by Crazy Horse of the Lakota Sioux whom I admired for living more closely to the land, and to his people, than I do, having grown up in Los Angles, which is, of course, embarrassingly close to the seductive fantasies spun from neighboring (and surrounded) Hollywood. Just gaze up at the sign in the hills of Griffith Park, which originally read “Hollywoodland,” and was erected to advertise a housing development...