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

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

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.

True affluence is to not need anything.

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

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