Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.