The size of the place that one becomes a member of is limited only by the size of one’s heart.

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 great lie that science has given us is that reality is material.

Love is the best window of the mind through which you see the beauty of life.

We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it.

Everyday, every hour, I have held you close in my heart.

While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.

If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.