That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.