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.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

Welcome to my garage. This is where I go to get away from the Honey-Do list.

Ladies' hearts are like china on a mantelpiece. There are so many of them, and it is so easy to break them without noticing.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

Inexperience because of (President Barack) Obama's inexperience.Look that would be one of the challenges.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

There are so many good venues in Chicago.

Worrying about the future is a thing of the past. I don't think about it.

Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?