“I don't argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I've never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing--including myself.”

“By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.”

“Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.”

“The more I work with Nature and totemism, the more church is everywhere.”

“We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace.”

“That we don't remember the beginning or the ending of dreams is our unconscious reminding us that it's all about the process.”

“We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are working with. Such work is unifying, healing. It brings us home from pri...”

“My life's work is to help people step into their God-given abilities and make a positive difference in their community.”

“In a world of knowledge and expertise, fame and fortune, status and ranks....nothing has the power to affect change as much as love and compassion.”

“Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.”

“You're not free unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.”

“A man who has HEALTH has a thousand dreams, but a man without HEALTH has only one.”

“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”

“As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just...”

“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence standsLike heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral...”