Gradually I came to realize that the process of saving the desert of the human heart and revegetating the actual desert is actually the same thing.

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.

That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.

[Chemical weapons] isn't about what the United States believe in, it's about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don't have to discuss it.

It is not too late to take another path.

We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.

When I don't have to do out on tour I go to church. Church is a good place to be.

when you put something good into the world, something good comes back to you.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.