In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.

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.

My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began

Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Love and kindness are the glue that holds us together.

What is right is the ultimate law and trumps the law of the land.

A man without a sweet tooth is not to be trusted.

In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.

I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent.

You'd better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You're gonna fry." -Bobby

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.