Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

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.

Your soul may be trampled in times of troubles. But if your spirit is strong, you will survive.

Never give up on your existence.Never give up on your dreams.Never give up on your love.

Everything hurts until you become good at hurting everything around too.

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

We're the generous country, we're the ones that open our doors to other countries, and in many cases we get taken advantage of because of that.

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.