You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

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.

There's so much to be afraid of.

Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.

The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.