There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.

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.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

Let your poem be kept nine years.

I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter," said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

I don't want to be awkward, but I've thought about this a lot, and all I want to say is in the statement. Me going out with Gabby from the Cheeky Girls is not a secret.

You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.

I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.

Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.