I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.

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.

Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.

I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops.

When we play on big stages, we tend to beef off the dance side of things and keep up the tempo.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your own mind, without ear of dismissal or mockery.