Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street.
When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.
Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness.
Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.
The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.