Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

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.

Education unlocks the greatest potential of the human mind.

Don’t be late or I may end up marrying the judge.

Eternity is pure and knows to give you what you desire … You have to be clear what you ask for, or else you’ll get what you deserve.

When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!

I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.

Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.

The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

Sweet treats are as much a part of our culture as they are our taste palettes, and it can sometimes seem as though sugary snacks are everywhere.