When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.

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.

I wuz bad. I did not meen to be. I wanted to see the litle peeple who lives in the radio. I could see the lits on. The radio fel on the flor. The lites won't even werk an thos peeple is ded.

Everybody potentially can make the claim that we should all be treated fairly.

I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

I can really recommend a beautifully but sparsely furnished room with empty walls!

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.