Occupation: Author Birth: October 7, 1948
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as….
There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world r….
Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else..
The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink..
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time..
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth..
We are defined by how we place our attention..
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between..
We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling..
The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her,….
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well..
We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I would say, "I h….
I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's a….
We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention.
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watchi….
As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a….
Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishmen….
People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, an….
If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion st….
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the ….
I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. ….