In Wilderness I Sense The Miracle Of

We Are All Consumers And Should All Be Producers.

Success Is Not Measured By What A Man Accomplishes, But By The Opposition He Has Encountered And The Courage With Which He Has Maintained The Struggle Against Overwhelming Odds.

If We Can Combine Our Knowledge Of Science With The Wisdom Of Wildness, If We Can Nurture Civilization Through Roots In The Primitive, Man's Potentialities Appear To Be Unbounded, Through This Evolving Awareness, And His Awareness Of That Awareness, He Can Emerge With The Miraculous-to Which We Can Attach What Better Name Than 'god'? And In This Merging, As Long Sensed By Intuition But Still Only Vaguely Perceived By Rationality, Experience May Travel Without Need For Accompanying Life.

On A Long Flight, After Periods Of Crisis And Many Hours Of Fatigue, Mind And Body May Become Disunited Until At Times They Seem Completely Different Elements, As Though The Body Were Only A Home With Which The Mind Has Been Associated But By No Means Bound. Consciousness Grows Independent Of The Ordinary Senses. You See Without Assistance From The Eyes, Over Distances Beyond The Visual Horizon. There Are Moments When Existence Appears Independent Even Of The Mind. The Importance Of Physical Desire And Immediate Surroundings Is Submerged In The Apprehension Of Universal Values.

I Realized That If I Had To Choose, I Would Rather Have Birds Than Airplanes.