The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

No one gets to tell you what your life means!

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Iraqis don't trust one another, parties and ministries are run by sects and not by functionaries.

Every girl deserves a guy who'll prove to her that not all guys are the same, a guy who'll love her just the way she is.

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.