An Ecologist lives in a world of wounds.

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.

What's the difference in wanting someone you don't like to vanish and dreaming about a world in which they don't exist? They're just two ways of saying the same thing.

Love is the miraculous power of life.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

Power is the ability to make change.

I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

I agree that someone falling down is really funny, and I can go on YouTube and watch people falling. It makes me laugh.

Its a rare thing when a father and son can share the same experience. My father and I have seen all 19 Bond films together, two or three times.

When someone tells you the fundamentals you think that everything's going to come out and be amazing.