It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.

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.

The good news is that you are alive. The essential thing is that you must live

You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say "watch me".

How can I blame the cherry blossomsFor rejecting this floating world And drifting away as the wind calls them

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.

do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation.