We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

To do good, you actually have to do something.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

I think you have to remember that writing is hard; my first editor used to say that to me.

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.

I love the smell of estrogen in the morning.

Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters.

Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.