I prefer to hike in nature, give lectures, or be with family when not working.

If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do... Nature is magic.

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.

I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?

Nature is not a free lunch, but we treat it as a free lunch.

In our instant pudding world, everything is sweet, smooth, very convenient and fast. There are lots of assorted flavors, but they're all artificial.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

The high-performing board shows the ability and openness to question itself and its decisions and discussions.

No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.

Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.

Love works in mysterious ways.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.