Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.

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.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

In life, never talk about problems. Talk about solutions.

All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.

I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.

Never without a shilling in my purse.

Everything is presented in as devious a manner as it could possibly be presented.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.

Spending time with the child or adolescent in mutually enjoyable activities on a regular basis will help to build warmth and trust.