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.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

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

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

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.

There's so much to be afraid of.