If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

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.

Question: You’re 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing.

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.

I love hanging out with friends and family.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

Infuse heart, soul, spirit and passion because talent is not enough

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!