Allen turned up at my little cabin, … and we immediately began exchanging poems.

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young...

He could start for Arkansas right now.

The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. ‘Toxic’ comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root...

That’s the part most of us can remember being part of homeroom,

There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at...

It was really a blessing. It helped even out the conditions across the course.

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

The other side of the “sacred” is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the Neolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth,...

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

It gave a sense of the possibilities of an alternative culture. And it wasn’t just poetry that moved people. It was the sense of a community, of people with a vision.

In the 40,000 year time scale we’re all the same people. We’re all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

(Resort) players are finding that bunker. I can tell; they don’t rake the sand.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

The first priority is just to get them registered,

I have a friend who feels sometimes that the world is hostile to human life–he says it chills us and kills us. But how could we be were it not for this planet that provided...

It’s about establishing a collaborative professional learning community,

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field’s forces [become] what we call very...

It won’t address every student every day, but we want to reach each one over the course of 180 days,

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.