The size of the place that one becomes a member of is limited only by the size of one’s heart.

A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture

I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.

Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

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