We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.

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.

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

We live the given life, and not the planned.