What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.