The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

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.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

Life is like a game, once your piece is on the board there is no leaving until you have finished. It does not matter how you finished just that you pass the line...

Reading is the journey of those who can not take the train

German diligence is actually endurance.

It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating.

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.

People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.

I think water’s, like, a really important thing.

David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.