What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.