But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

My affection for you is not my problem.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Without new ideas success can become stale

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

Searching for new ideas is an endless process.

Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.