Searching for #wilding

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe.

I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

If you gently grasp a nettle
It will sting you for your pains.
Grasp it tightly like a rod of metal
And it soft as silk remains.

The sky threw a real temper-tantrum last night. It was as if the gods had just found out about Formica, and wanted to punish humanity severely.

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.

It's not an easy life, but it's simple … and you're free.

What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great a strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward toward the light; but the laden traveller may never reach the end of it.

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

He never grew up, but he never stopped growing.

We don’t fight weeds, we grow weeds.

I'd much rather live in a country that embraces everyone's right to BE FULL OF SHIT than one that pretends it can declare a priori what's true and what's false or one that makes false equivalences between violence and speech.

Culture is the skills, preferences and aesthetics that flow socially and are different from instinct.

If you walk without questions, you might as well not be there.

There is something … definitively wrong about psychoanalysis … I believe that explaining every dark little corner that we have in our soul is a very unhealthy and a very stupid and a very dangerous thing … Why? Because when you inhabit a house, and you illuminate every last corner of the house with strong lights, the house becomes uninhabitable. Human beings illuminated to the very last corner of their darkest soul become inhuman and uninhabitable.

I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.

He has achived one of the hardest things to achieve in our time: a freedom from judgement about how and who he should be.

… a master is anyone who can be themselves in any situation.

Growing up living off the land as a hunter-gatherer has placed in him an immediacy with life that makes him incredibly present and wonderful to be around, yet gives him a terrible debt record.

As trackers our part is to be awake. Our part is to listen. We want to hear the call. Tracking begins with wanting to track.

… the unknown is a disipline of wildness, and wildness is a relationship with aliveness. Too much uncertainty is chaos, but to little is death.

Nature needs two seemingly opposing things from us: to accept that we are at the mercy of it's awesome power. And to rise to the challenge of protecting wildness at all costs.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

To imagine one can live in the country of money and preserve one’s soul is like imagining one can preserve one’s life at the bottom of a lake.

Water begets water, soil is the womb, vegetation is the midwife.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

You stay. I go.

In the last analysis, every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

Life is a system for copying information into the future.

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.

If you can only obey and not disobey, you are a slave; if you can only disobey and not obey, you are a rebel … (you act out of anger, disappointment, resentment, not in the name of a conviction or a principle).

At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

In order to disobey, one must have the courage to be alone, to err, and to sin.

You shall not accept any information, unless you verify it for yourself. I have given you the hearing, the eyesight, and the brain, and you are responsible for using them.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Soil doesn’t lie, and its testimony won’t be silenced.

The thorn bush is the mother of the Oak.

I mean we're a lawless people, that's what makes us a free people in a way.

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity, or it becomes the practice of freedom. The means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.

… he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth … but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

… anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.