We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't see the stars at night.

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

Organic? I grew up on Angel Delight. We didn't have anything in the house if it wasn't neon!

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.

Speech isn't for agony.

The Chinese five-spice works really well in the quantity that I used. It makes it almost imperceptibly just a little bit sweeter without making it really sweet or really even that Asian flavored.

You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one.

Some people liked Rudolph Valentino. I liked Rin Tin Tin.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.