All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.

I don't care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.

Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Let the boat work - and not me!