The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Dare to seize every opportunity on your life's journey.

A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.

I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store.

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.