Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.

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.

Time was this place didn’t make sense and I could live with it. Either it’s changed, or I have.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

Many states have laws against cousin marriage, which I think are ridiculous - people should be allowed to make that choice.

Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini country unto itself.

[Hillary Clinton chose to make her marriage work. That is just outrageous.]It speaks of the sexism and the misogyny in this election [2016].