Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Never be afraid to tell me anything, ” he whispered against her hair. “No matter how ashamed you might feel. I’ll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.

We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.

Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.