All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

If you make your own path in this thing we call life, you will forever know that it was yours and not someone else's.

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Aid the sick; thank the Divine Power for the state of equilibrium you are able to conserve.

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.

She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

This job will drive me to drink, and for that reason, I will be eternally grateful.