The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.

The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow...

My imagination has always been inspired by nature’s vision

When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

Grief leads you to believe that life will never be ordinary again, and it never really will be for it is made extraordinary as it is touched and transformed by our greatest loves and deepest losses.

Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.

The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do.

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.

It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance