Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might; He calls me His, I call Him mine. My God, my joy and light

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.

I sort of enjoy being able to hear what other composers are doing and how they might score something differently than me. I enjoy that part.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.