What does it mean to grow rich? Is it to have red-blooded adventures and to make a ‘fortune,’ which is what brought the whalers and other entrepreneu….

There's so much to be afraid of..

No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is….

The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological law….

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation ….

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis..

Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The….

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions..

Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of th….

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret..

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason..

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you.

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light..

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us..

The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love..

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it..

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves..

The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not ….

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe..

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility….

My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it ….