When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.

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.

You have a calling, but this does not mean that you must start your ministry immediately

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

You will not get chances all the time, so don't miss any chance if you feel that it can hold you at the right place that you deserve.

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.

the only drinking problem I've ever had, is figuring out why I'm still stuck in this salad spinner

When a man or woman is born again by the Spirit of God they will give evidence of it in part by striving to live a holy life.

My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts.

Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.

I rejoice in the success of others, knowing that there is plenty for us all.