We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

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 always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born.

When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What was worth loving?

Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

A single mom tries when things are hard. She never gives up. She believes in her family, even when things are tough. She knows that above all things... a mother's love is more than enough.

I think in Russia, there's a lot of storytelling and anecdotes.

If I can make it, you can make it.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself.

I do hope having done what I did, and America having accepted me the way they did, opens the door for more global talent, which should have representation in global entertainment.