Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable.Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. Butthat's OK. The journey changes you; it should changeyou. It leaves marks on your memory, on yourconsciousness, on your heart, and on your body. Youtake…
What is the most enjoyable five-minute stretch of your day? How could you lengthen it to ten minutes?
When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek…
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
“Over the coming century, the most vital human resource in need of conservation and protection is likely to be our own consciousness and mental space.
Keep wondering. Keep wandering.
You would be surprised what there is to see in this great country within 200 miles of where any of us live. I don't care what state or town
The moment my legs begin to move my thoughts begin to flow.
“How does one keep an imagination fresh in a world that works double-time to suck it away? … I think that the answer is, one must live a curious life. One must have stacks and stacks and stacks of books…
“This is one corner… of one country, in one continent, on one planet that’s a corner of a galaxy that’s a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same…
To change my own mind. I try to create a new vocabulary or terrain for myself, so that I open out — I always think of the Dutch claiming land from the sea — or open up something that would…
The world is an extremely unreliable critic. The world likes useful; value is personal. Being creative has its own rewards, but acclaim, admiration, or even respect are not to be expected.
Books are made out of books
"If you think you can learn a lot from reading books, try writing one."
