Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth.

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

Every time I come across a rattlesnake on my farm I initially react in fear and am tempted to kill it. Then I realize I wouldn't want to live in a world where all wild things - without and within - are domesticated.

You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do.

You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.