Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new.
You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough.
The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making.
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
We live the given life, and not the planned.
Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
The earth is what we all have in common.