Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

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.

By forgiving we become free.

That’s no little kid. That’s Jason Steed, the biggest damn hero you will ever see!

You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

With any other movie, you're entering new territory, so it's quite different to be involved in something where it's the same characters, and the same people.

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

I feel like I just returned a 100-yard kickoff in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl to win it all, only to have my run called back by a flag on the play.

It's a happy relationship when it's easy and when there's that trust and love and no jealousy or games or anything.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.