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• Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
• Knowing where and who are intimately linked.
• Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.
• Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more…
• Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance…
• I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against…
• Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world
• Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment.…
• O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!
• The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
• We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We…
• Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

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