The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

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.

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.

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.

God's knows what is best for us.

Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that todayis tomorrow's nostalgia.

Let us look around with a compassionate heart to feel and see the deepest joy of life.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.

When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]

Getting the role like this is such awonderful opportunity... I remember looking in the mirror and going 'I'm superman'.

In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?

It's a great loss.[Carrie Fisher] was a comic genius, as far as I'm concerned.