Tony Farrar Quotes & Sayings

The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails. And this is happening to the world, and I think it is very very dangerous for our future generations, those of us who believe that the world is not only necessary to us in its pristine state, but it is in itself an act of some kind of spiritual thing. I said once, and I think this is true, the world did not have to be beautiful to work. But it is. What does that mean?
[from 'A Thousand Mornings' With Poet Mary Oliver for NPR Books] — Mary Oliver

God knows us in all our conniving, self-centered, and jealousy-laden splendor and loves us anyway. — Tullian Tchividjian

A poem is a record of a discovery. — Ted Kooser

Contention, like a horse,
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,
And bears down all before him. — William Shakespeare

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. — George Lucas

How am I going to explain to my kids one day that I can't buy them a happy meal because the toy will make them fat? — Carroll Bryant

After a really hectic week, I hate going out on a Friday evening, so I'll always opt for a night at home. — Donna Air

The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect. — Thomas Friedman

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different. — Wes Anderson

I don't have a daily routine at all. — Agnes Obel