Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

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.

Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.

There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.

Live life as a series of revelations

You shall above all things be glad and young.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.