Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

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 you ask God to show you those who are most in need of help, you might be surprised by what he will reveal.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

If you refuse to be happy until you have no problems or challenges, you will probably never be happy!

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.