We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

He takes my hand and says, 'Let's make a world.

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

We're as much influenced by everybody else as they are by us, if they are. It's just all a part of the big thing.

I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.