Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.

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.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

The rule is that when one’s mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person’s mind in that subject.

Greatness is not a flower that grows in an easy life

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired.