Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.

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.

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.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception

Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.

The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it is reading, but I read.

The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.

Some people feel like you have to cement your love.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.