Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses

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

Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

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

You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.

Human beings everywhere in the world are affected by the global media now. Still, what I have noticed in the east Asia, in the indigenous world, Alaska in particular, and in back country farm and ranch country, is a higher sense of etiquette, and more respectful manners. Urban middle class cosmopolitan world peoples of all races have become speedy and rude. This is a pretty big generalization though.

Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an old silent movie, to a runaway locomotive rushing headlong toward a very singular catastrophe