To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

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.

I've come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.

Why is it that if you say you don’t enjoy using an e-reader, or that you aren’t going to get one till the technology is mature, you get reported as “loathing�

Love, positivity and gratitude are the most essential ingredients to a happy and fulfilled life.

I hand him the single greatest work of fiction known to man: my resume.

Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.

When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!

Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite.