The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

Watching the animals come and go, and feeling the land swell up to meet them and then feeling it grow still at their departure, I came to think of the migrations as breath, as the land breathing. In spring a great inhalation of light and animals. The long-bated breath of summer. And an exhalation that propelled them all south in the fall.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.