Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.

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.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish.

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.

The Long Way HomeWhy is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other?Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around?

What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.

I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.