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

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

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

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

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