An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

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.

Those in your inner circle can significantly influence your success and the progress you make towards achieving your dreams.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo, ' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.

I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.

Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy

Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?

I’ve already lived through the worst time of my life. So I know that whatever happens to me from now on, nothing will ever be as bad as it was back then. That makes me happy.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done