So friends, every day do something that won't compute.

Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

Willing to die you give up your will; keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.

People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.