I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

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.

Before and after you do your best, know it that you must rely on God. Your best - no matter how great - is nothing if you minus God from the equation.

Boys dream of strippers, men dream of their women waiting for them at home.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.