All that we did was human, stupid, easily forgiven, Not quite right.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.

The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

People dance because dance can change things. One move, can bring people together. One move, can make you believe like there's something more. One move, can set a whole generation free.

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

We got to think of something for people to do.

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day.