The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

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.

How lucky we are! We are singing our songs, dancing our dances, and living our lives.

You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don’t exist.

Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

When people see you on the screen, you become bigger than life.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

I like to use things that didn't exist 50 years ago, or 20 years ago even.

Dave Frank is one of the few people that can REALLY play!

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.