An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

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.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

Tommy's [Gamble] an East Coast guy, so he kind of talks fast and in quick statements and phrases, so I understood him and he understood me, and we just hit it off.

It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.

God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

If I fail more than you do, I win.

I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.