Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, treasure God.

Rain turned to ice, and lightning splintered, it splicedthe black sky, it seeped a bright white.All animals they fled, from the sky as it bled, pale death that fell veiling the night.

I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

President Bush says he has just one question for the American voters, 'Is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were four years ago?'

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.

Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.