As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.

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.

In order to survive, I came up with a five-step secret to getting it all done. If you're busy too, feel free to use it:1. Admit that you can't possibly get it all done.

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

Nothing can steal happiness, peace, away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser.

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.