The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos, the word for home.

caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.

To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.

All powers have two sides, the power to create and the power to destroy. We must recognize them both, but invest our gifts on the side of creation.

The very earth that sustains us is being destroyed to fuel injustice. An economy that grants personhood to corporations but denies it to the more-than-human beings

Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress.

I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts.

In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage.

Balance is not a passive resting place—it takes work, balancing the giving and the taking, the raking out and the putting in.

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship.

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

Beauty is not about being Formal or Stylish, it's rather about how you think of yourself in front of mirror!

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

Fighting has opened the path to redemption for me.

The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right?

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.

Falsehood is for a season.

When one is still and listens, one begins to be in touch with a mysterious element that is within each of us, which can transform and shape us and can help to transform the world.