Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.

We must find our way back to true nature. We must set ourselves to the task of revitalizing the earth. Regreening the earth, sowing seeds in the desert--that is the path society must follow.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song

Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.

There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.

The idea that people who guarded you could also be the people that you needed guarding from was nothing anyone should have to learn.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.

New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

Isolation must precede true society.

You have a hundred senators, but for anything to happen you need 60, which makes it really hard for anything to happen.

To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.