“We are not living in the land of the living and going to the land of the dying, but rather, we are living in the land of the dying and going to the land of the living.”

“I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)”

“One's native land!―there should one live! there die!”

“Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.”

“How are we to become native to this land?"(as quoted in Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine)”

“It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.”