CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.
[Our National Parks] are more than scenery, they are portals and thresholds of wonder, an open door that swings back and forth from our past to our future.
This is what we can promise the future: a legacy of care. That we will be good stewards and not take too much or give back too little, that we will recognize wild nature for what it is, in all its mag...
Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of o...
Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still. W...
My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.
My spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild.
What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to listen.
True eloquence has an edge, sharp and clean.
Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in...
Empowerment.
We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when silence begins—it is only afterward t...
We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there very long. Sooner or later you have to look...
How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, in the long run, will tell what kind of people we really are.-Laurance S. Rockefeller
Your voice is the wildest thing you own, Brooke says to me. And you’re giving it away. You can’t see it. Your obsession is blinding you. He is angry. He is talking in shorthand. You’re losing yourself...
Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.
What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.
We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.
This is wilderness, to walk in silence. This is wilderness, to calm the mind.This is wilderness, my return to composure.
There becomes little doubt as to why power chooses to support power. Rwanda becomes invisible once again. We have nothing America wants.
