1. “The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.”
2. “Find your place on the planet. Dig in and take responsibility from there.”
3. “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
4. “True affluence is to not need anything.”
5. “When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.”
6. “Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthless exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses.”
7. “Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance spirit and humility.”
8. “A great poet does not express his or hr self; he expresses all of our selves.”
9. “The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.”
10. “Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.”
11. “To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture.”
12. “In Western Civilization, our elders are books.”
13. “Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.”
14. “The size of the place that one become a member of is limited only by the size of one’s heart.”
15. “Streams and mountains never stay the same.”
16. “A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.”
17. “With no surroundings there an be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.”
18. “Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.”
19. “Thought is just an apprehension of touch.”
20. “You don’t want to b victimized by your lesser talents.”
