True affluence is to not need anything.

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!

I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.

Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.