There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.