The world is whole beyond human knowing.

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.

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology

Males are simple creatures. If we can’t f**k it, we want to kill it.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

I beat a brain tumor.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

If someone burgles your house, and you knock them out, are you gonna apologize for knocking them out? No you're not, you're gonna stomp on their head, just like any other normal person would.

Every year, I resolve to take good care of myself and stay in shape.

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.