It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.

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.

Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.

Dat's a some joke, Hey Boss.

It's as if there is infinity between our lips and we will never actually touch. Like math, where dividing by half can last for eternity.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

Content that helps is superior to content that sells.

Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments.

Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.