“You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that’s all.”

I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present.

He’s stubborn,” Tux warned in a singsong tone. “Stay out of this,” Mark spat. “And touchy,” Tux added.

In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.

My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

Poetry is very crafted. You can’t have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

I don’t need to apologize for my behavior you need to apologize for not understanding.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you’ll learn what works and what doesn’t.

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.