How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business that most businessmen don't want to hear about. They just want to call a fabric manufacturer, and say, "Hey, give us 10,000 yards of shirting."

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.