Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak..

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams a….

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering..

Death steals everything except our stories..

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass..

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends..

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what..

In a life properly lived, you're a river..

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs..

We Are All One. When we allow ourselves to become aware of this statement in its purest form, we open the doors to reveal the oneness of being. Using….

I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand….

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small..

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps..

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living..

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within..

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance..

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain..

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it..

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense..

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods..