The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.