As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

Self-determination and self-dedication will make the dream a reality.

The simplest person who worship God is wiser than the supposed wisest people who worshiped a worthless substitute.

The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart.

life ain't fair. It's always slightly one sided

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.

When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.

Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.

Sticking to it is the genius.