The best thing you can do for the planet is to stay home.

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.

Being the Stream Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies. Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally into it.

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

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.

True affluence is not needing anything.