If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

With each encounter, we leave a part of ourselves

You’re actually fulfilling your calling by going to work and giving your best.

To regret your soul is to regret your past.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

My parents professed to believe in God, but I rarely heard his name mentioned unattached to 'damn' or 'sakes' or 'willing.

The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.

He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.