Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 22, 1927 Death: April 5, 2014
For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the ….
It's a simplification to say that the men [during Stone Age] went to war to maintain their dominance over the women. The men would help dig agricultu….
Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that ….
I ... had what Kierkegaard called 'the sickness of infinitude,' wandering from one path to another with no real recognition that I was embarked upon ….
I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery….
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not,….
Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burd….
It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through th….
The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent….
When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that….
When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral ….
Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders.
You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself..
Be light, light, light - full of light!.
Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being..
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried….
The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is ….
Anyone who thinks they can save the world is both wrong and dangerous.
The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself..
I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to ste….
There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our ey….