There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.

Loneliness is the poverty of self

Almost everyone yearns for change in their lives.

We must realize that our destiny is strongly linked to the destiny of the poorest on this planet.

I have the best fans. I know every artist says that but I really do. I love my fans for how much they know about me, how much they learn about me, and how much they really pay attention.

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?