Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.
And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?
A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!
Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.
Where's the upside in opening your mouth?
The truth is that we won’t receive the support we need until we ask for it. Just because we can do it all doesn’t mean we should. And when we don’t speak up about our needs, we’re asking our loved ones to read our minds—and then we resent them when they fail our test. By not being open and honest about the support we need, we’re selling ourselves short and setting our relationships up for failure.