If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

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.

Like a flower, be soft, loving, kind, and beautiful, but never lose the courage to bloom.

Every programmer is an author.

They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

Right now I can't be sure that I will be back on stage. We have been touring for two years and that is way too much.