Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.

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.

Real christians always forgive before they are asked for forgiveness.

Opportunities rarely give second chances.

Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.

I realize now, I was learning how to walk as well. I haven’t mastered the steps, I fall too. But im on my path, my path... and one day that path... will take me to her.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

Sometimes you have to lose to win

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

God is the one who chooses our rulers

there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.