I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

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.

Failures can be called ‘strengtheners’ as they make you determined to reach your goal with the lessons they teach.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

We can't fight and beg from those we fight at the same time.

Whenever I see interesting names, I jot them down. I've found them in lots of different places: on the news, in the phone book, even on hotel registry lists.

I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

At heart I cannot accept that I am a well-known rock 'n' roll star and one of the greatest drummers in the world.

There is eloquence in screaming.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Truth is inner harmony.