And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer’s keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
A teacher’s major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student’s grandchild.
In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
Willing to die you give up your will; keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.
What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
We clasp the hands of those who go before us.
Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful.
Invest in the millenium.
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.
What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
It’s mighty hard right now to think of anything that’s precious that isn’t endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
You can’t be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
We don’t know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.
We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy that is really not an economy at all but merely a financial system, one that is unnatural, undemocratic, sacrilegious, and ephemeral.
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.