I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

You are ruin and chaos to them, but you are lovely to my eye.''You're brave or daft, then, ' she said, quite rightly. 'Chaos and ruin. Where does that leave me, then?

she wondered how she could have spent all that money and have nothing but clothes and accessories and a long list of men she never wanted to see again to show for it

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly.

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.