Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.