Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

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.

Many people become prosperous only to realize the illusion that Success is more Fulfillment than Achievement.

... being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many.

The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

Training was one thing, reality another.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist.

To the extent America abandons Israel, it abandons itself.