Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

In the greatest trial, we behold the greatness of our great God.

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve.

After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

My favorite photos are the ones where people don't really see me. I'm more interested in looking at people looking at things.