The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

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.

Is it a bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend makes you say things like, Satan is a myth... I guess.

Go directly to Nirvana. Don't pass go - or you'll have kids, you'll grow old together, you'll be born into another realm where you'll forget that there was even nirvana.

Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy.

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

Be amazing. Be everywhere. Be real

Truth has no path, truth is living and, therefore, changing.

Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.

There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.