The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

Our power lies in our love of our homelands.

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

You are what you repeatedly do

You're only as good as your last pass.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

All workers want is a fair shake.

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.