Quotes from Tom Brown, Jr.

Immerse yourself in nature's symphony and let your senses burst with joy.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal and man, to enjoy.

I see life as a great banquet at which I'm the honored guest, along with my brothers the deer and the bear and the raccoon and the salamander and the eagle and the fly.

Death... is the natural end and the supernatural beginning.

Fasting can be used for cleansing the body... It can also be used for separating oneself from the physical aspects of life to concentrate on the spiritual... It entails more than simply not eating.

The smallest insect is as important as the largest bear.

...life is a gift to be accepted and returned. Life is a celebration, it is a learning, it is a gift.

Seek the wilderness, for there is peace.

We are a part of everything real and natural, and therefore they are a part of us. If we don't fight them, but let them flow through us, they will never bother us, only enrich us. It is such a simple principle that most of us miss it. But by missing it, we miss most of what life is all about.

You can't exist with nature without patience because everything in nature happens with such an easy, flowing manner. You get out of step, and you miss it. It's gone.

We are trapped by our conditioning in a world of steel and plastic, asphalt and concrete. We are removed from the earth and getting farther and farther from it daily.

The land is everyone's and no one's.

My world has no time except the seasons and the perspectives of youth and old age.

Listen with your feelings, see with your heart.

In my world, the closer I can get to the dirt and mud, the more alive I become.