Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.

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.

This life is not perfect, live it to the full, it's all we have

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Follow your passion.It will lead you to great places.

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

America spends billions of dollars protecting the borders of other countries around the world. It's high time we start protecting our own.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.