One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

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.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

The path you're on looks different when you turn around.

You are yourself, and you've never been more beautiful!

Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure