To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

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.

Las lágrimas que no se lloranesperan en pequeños lagos?O serán ríos invisiblesque corren hacia la tristeza?

If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack, as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, empty of a soul.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

I think Nashville could use some better shopping!

If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.