There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

The desire of the people should be the major instrument used to draw them closer to God

Children are a blessing. They are a happiness so sharp that it feels like pain.

Basically all I've done is keep my promise.

All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range

I acted my heart out.

Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.

God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.

Many times in my life I've been upset about something and said to myself, "Will this matter in two years?" Not even in two months.

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.