The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

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.

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

There is always time to die, but never time to live.

Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.

Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.

Life is a waste without humor -- living is all about happiness and laughter.

I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.

I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.