The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.

If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos.

Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.

When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

Have a grateful heart to be happy.

What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.

If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.