The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

Death steals everything except our stories.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.

Life is not so simple as you think without taking those risks, trying everything to make ends meet.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

We'd like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

Find something in your life worth fighting for

Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.