Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.

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.

All humans are important to God, so treat them all with love

The gods are blind and men see only what they wish.

When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself

Christmas is about Christ. When we forget that, we lose the true magic of Christmas.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Innovations until now conceived by no one at all

Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective.

I think something substantial will pass out of the House at some point during this term.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.