There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

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

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for yourself. That done, be the untutored traveler, the eager reader, the enthusiastic listener. Put what you learn together carefully, and then write thoughtfully, with respect both for the reader and your sources.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.