I recalled when I worked in the woods and the bars of Madras, Oregon. That short-haired joy and roughness America your stupidity. I could almost love you again.

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.

People often try to distinguish between personal and professional life, but they end failing - Cord 8 : Are we Computers?

It was that Moment when your fingers touched my skin for the first time I realised, how the fire can heal scars.

Luck often comes to those who are brave.

Within you is everything you need

When a person in your life continuously displays to you they do not care, there comes a point where you may want to start believing them.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.

I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.

It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.

I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.