Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.