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.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

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

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

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.

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

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board