We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

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.

Some hold grudges for a lifetime, unaware that courageously forgiving those who have wronged us is wholesome and therapeutic.

No music in the raindropsNo clouds with silver liningTorrents of sorrowsHorror in streams

Artists need to express.

Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.