There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.

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.

Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him.

You can get through the storm with your hope in Jesus.

I give you, " said Alexander, glancing at her, "what you need most from me.

Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.

I'm a golfer not a history major.

The Universe yields to me when I ask.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.

I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.

Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.