We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

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.

Justice is the truth in action.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

Anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it.

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.

Make thyself perfect; others, happy.

Hannah: What's your plan? Claire: Go get him Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.