Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question.

If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people--things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.