Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordina….

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the p….

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food..

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner….

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass..

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner vo….

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes i….

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded st….

I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and….

When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf..

Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a st….

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our dail….

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

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never..

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities..

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding somethi….

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous an….

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 foste….

We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What do….

You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction.

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and li….