Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

To know ‘as it is’ is Real Knowledge (Gnan).

Magic was merely the unknown, a wild thing undefined by logic or reason.

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.

I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu.

My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

When economic modernizations come in, say goodbye to wildlife.

I enjoyed all of the tours and learned something from everyone.

Easy writing's curst hard reading.