Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.

Reach with all your heart to your divine-dreams.

In life what you ASPIRE will TRANSPIRE—be it Loss or Gain, Sun or Rain, Joy or Pain. - RVM.

Democrats need to become a 50-state party. You can't have a great party on the West Coast and the East Coast. You need to have a party in all 50 states.

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

A Muslim allowed a topless Jew to sit on his camel. And we say we can't live side by side? I say we try and we can and we will. And you don't even have to be topless. L'chaim.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.