Occupation: Poet Birth: May 8, 1930
When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own..
Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love..
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spi….
Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking,….
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 ….
True affluence is to not need anything..
Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step . . . is to make us love the world r….
The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home..
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there..
Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free your….
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 ecstas….
Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses.
Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility..
Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again..
But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] wh….
Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us - Grandfathe….
Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sort….
Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place..
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying….
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The….
The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom..