Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

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.

If not us, then who?If not now, then when?

Believe in yourself and power of your dreams.

He knew too well the sting of loneliness and how over time it stole you away, piece by piece, until a mere shell remained.

Time travel is awesome....And useful. That sentence had a typo when I typed it...The first time.

I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross