We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

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.

If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.