For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

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.

Sense will buy you more than dollars.

Stop assuming I don't have any emotions. My inner thoughts might not be easily seen on my face. I do think and feel.

Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.

Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, sort of the three big hitters on the Republican side.

A high view of God leads to high worship and holy living, but a low of God leads to trivial worship and low living.

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.