The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.

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.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Life is short. Eternity is long.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

The tribunal of God and of the pope is one and the same.

It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV.

I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.