We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

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.

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

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.

It's good to remember even during your darkest hour, you are not here to be punished.You are here to serve.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

My manager introduced me to the 'Rise to Honor' team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

It's up to history to judge.

Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.