To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.

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.

Think that today is the best day of your life and, with love and kindness, change yourself to begin the first day of the rest of your existing life.

The passion of God is to restore and reclaim the whole earth

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and greatest weakness.

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.