Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

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.

...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...

You have been blessed to stand on the shoulders of giants. Make sure that someone stands on yours as well. This is the only way of human progress.

Real love ought to be more like a tree and less like a flower.

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.