We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to l….

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avaric….

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of go….

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive..

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with ….

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves..

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human l….

The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach wit….

Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They a….

To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourse….

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth..

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together..

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the….

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion..

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as ….

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….

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

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

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

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

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….