My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

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.

The godly shall desired God.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

We spend most of our lives doing nothing but waiting. Waiting things that always change.

In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong but something greater: it seems inevitable.

The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.

There's not much point in finding a magic ring that lets you into other worlds if you're afraid to look at them when you've got there.

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives them a sort of familiarity that other people don't have.

Maybe it's good that we are so slow with everything. We were saved from the damages that took place in the last 10 or 15 years in the scene.