The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. Church just could not hold my spirit.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.