We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

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.

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

Guilt had teeth and it ate folks up if they didn't know how to tame it

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.

Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'?

I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work - or something outside of work.