To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

If we call the young ones, say 10 to 30 years old, 'siblings,' we can see they tend to be naturally ecological. They regard whales and owls as siblings too. That's a great advance.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.