I pledge allegiance to the soil of Turtle Island, and to the beings who thereon dwell one ecosystem in diversity under the sun With joyful interpenetratio n for all.

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.

You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside...that's why I've never had a job.

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman for herself in order to survive.

Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.

As we age, the bright light of youth either burns out or burns stronger - it's our choice.

A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.