For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength.

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.

The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.

Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.

The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.