We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

On a basic level- everything we say- essentially anything that comes out of our mouths is a rationalisation in some form or another

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.

Jerusalem is holy to three religions. You have to respect that.

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'