Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

Life reality tells us that to grow physically, you first need to grow inwardly

It was hope, dying unsurprised.

When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.

...animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.

Besides, they cast an eye to the past, they didn't disgrace the ground they trod and they believed in the future again. That's what a victory does for you.

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.