We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.