The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

When you celebrate a person, you are celebrating the creator of that person

...and for a great deal it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws.

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

I think we're infinite beings. We have to stay limitless.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.