Landscape shapes culture

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

Three most important questions for a happy life:How can I help? How can I love? How can I belong?

Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.

I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.

We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

Unfortunately, I've gotten so conditioned, it's hard to sleep past 4 a.m.

I am learning continuously and my enthusiasm in fighting is always high. Like a child that is always learning and always want to achieve my goal.