We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it’s environment. The environment is in you. It’s passing through you. You’re breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.
Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land.
The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.
Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.
You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man’s life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
Don’t pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.