In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

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.

However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them.

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

Boys ignored me. I never thought I was gorgeous.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.