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.

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

When you change, everything around you changes. That’s magic!

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can.

Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.

You want me here. (Artemis) Yeah, like an alien rectal probe up my sphincter.' (Acheron)