He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

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.

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us by our theology

Focus on the dreams, there may be distractions but still, focus.

I resent my barber when he charges the full cost after he cuts my hair but he says he's charging me for finding it.

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

Don't tell people you care about them when all you really care about is getting your own way.

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.