Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.

The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.

We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.

All the Creator's children are blessed with gifts. We are all given special skills to assist each other her, including animals, plants and insects.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

They continue to criticize me for my outside shooting, but I continue to make outside shots.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

The past is always triple-A. We can all remember what the past was. But if we try to make the future triple-A, we have no future. The future is always single-B.

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

We are sons of God And must be even as he.

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.