If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

Your happiness is in direct proportion to the amount you serve others.

Life don't care 'bout sorry's, " Will says. "Bad things happen, and you can't let 'em harden you. Whatever happened to yer pa, it ain't yer fault, Nate, and you gotta let it go.

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

I love chips and salsa. Guacamole.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!

Alice! You know I love you like a sister!" "Words." she growled.