A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.

Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week.

Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.