So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.