There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

The soul shares not the body's test.

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

Everything on this earth right now is about labor and slavery. War is the only American export left that anyone wants to buy.

I am proud of what I've done.