Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

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.

Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare, ' female liberals in the media have carte blanche to do and say anything.

People can and do change.

A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they do it. They look at sales as an art, not a science.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

I've Got the World on a String.

All of them are men, not a girl amongst them unless you count Tommy Falk because his lips are so pretty.

I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

The nature of bad news affects the teller.

Do not serve time, let time serve you.