The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

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.

Every living soul must endure to strive.

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is is what matters.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.