Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you... I feel as if I can think there.

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

He ran his fingers along the edge of my jaw. “You’re my north star, Kilani. Being near you makes my heart, my soul, and my wolf whole for the first time in my life.

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

Everyone has beautiful eyes but they often see ugliness not the beauty of life.

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.

Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.

I want people to think they can't die until they see me play.