In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.

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.

Consciousness is a magic of our brain and an illusion of our mind.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

Beautiful clear day in Beverly Hills. The sweet smell of Botox is in the air.

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.