There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being. If it grants us amazing powers over much of its functioning we must always remember that any arrogance on our part will ultimately be called to account. The beginning of wisdom in any human activity is a certain reverence before the primordial mystery of existence, for the world about us is a fearsome mode of being. We do not judge the universe.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect.

Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations.

We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.