We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

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 no matter what you do to postpone it, the future always shows up at your door.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

There are idiots. Look around.

When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."

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