What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

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.

The cold and crystal clear water, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul...

...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Funny how a wife can spot a blonde hair at twenty yards, yet miss the garage doors.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.

We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation.

The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.