If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.