To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.

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.

But I was - not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life

To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.

The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'

Best not to anticipate too much ... it jiggles the possibilities.

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

In Europe people don't worry about the body.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

There's a sort of romanticizing of the past. When you actually think about the past, you know it's a little different.