Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

Streams and mountains never stay the same.

For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel; it means have a place and get involved in what can be done in that place. That's the only way we're going to have a representative democracy in America. Nobody stays anywhere long enough to take responsibility for a local community.

stay together learn the flowers go light

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world