To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture

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.

One always has a choice.

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does.

The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences.

Participation trophies are the soul herpes of a generation.

I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth." "And which do you love best?" "The dream.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.

The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.