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.

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

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

Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.

Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free yourself from it. Finally, know at least one form of magic.

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

Thought is just an apprehension of touch.