Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

And what if I did run my ship aground oh still it was splendid to sail it!

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.

When I'm on the court, it's like I'm in heaven.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!