We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

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.

There is something to be said about the vastness of the earth, as well as the vastness of the heavens, in reminding us how small we are and how great God's creation is.

Annie believed taste and aromas had the power to transport people from the present to other places. Sometimes this was a journey to a different mood, but it was also a form of time travel.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

On all vital measures, measures necessary to protect you, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no.

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

... and because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second.

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.