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.

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

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.

If one door closes, another opens. As far as you're growing and updating yourself, the world craves to have a piece of you.

Spend some personal time with Jesus and he will reveal himself to you on a deeper level.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential.

Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.