It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

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 only victory over love is flight.

They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.

I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

I get to go back and ride my horses with all the people that I grew up with because that's really fun for me.

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

Political leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together.

When you're feeling full of doubt and fear has got you in a bind, love will save the day.