The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.

As inside of every seed is the power to rise from darkness, inside of everyone is the power to rise from adversity.

Well the sun’s the light of everything, ya know?” She said. “Without it, everything would be dark. We wouldn’t have anything. Everything needs a little light to exist. Even darkness.

I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.