A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.

Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.

"Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged."

...to understand infatuation, how the loved person can become a holding pattern for all the tattered ends of memory, experience and thought you've ever had.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

It's really easy to do sad you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.

This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.

To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by; Think not thou canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near.