“We are one knot in a great web of being, building out of the vast past and (with luck) continuing billions of years into the future, until the sun dies, the last of its energy reaches Earth, and ou...”

“Whenever we take the focus off ourselves and move it outward, we benefit. Life's most fortunate ironies are that what's best for the long run is best now, and selflessness serves our interests far ...”

“The world is changing because we're changing it. And that makes me understand, at least, what kind of person I'd like to be. A person can seek ways, whether big or small, to heal the world. That, t...”

“Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all youve learned about the grand themes of life. ...”

“The last glow of sundown dims away. Stars appear in the east. Night encloses us. The ocean seems to enlarge. When youre adrift at night, imagination and perception merge. They have to. You cant see...”

“In a universe devoid of life, any life at all would be immensely meaningful. We ARE that meaning. And what we see, says the poet Mary Oliver, is the world that cannot cherish us, but which we cheri...”

“How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?”

“We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, o...”

“To be out of touch with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.”