To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.

To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.