For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

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.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

Without toil, would there be any tears?

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.

There might be nowhere I would be at home. I might always be straddling two worlds, and finding solace in neither.

Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

The more you understand what somebody wants, needs, and fears, the more you can figure out how to add value.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.