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.
If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way for his life to come to him, if it will. Like a tree, he has given roots to the earth, and stands free.
The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.
It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.
We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.