Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

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.

The first step to success it's to imagine it

I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.

I like looking good. But it's also about the feeling, right?

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans.

You will not! It's wrong." "What, kissing you, or kissing you in Pies and Stuff?

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.