Eating is an agricultural act.
If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator’s love for it.
You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
I have always loved a window, especially an open one.
I don’t think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.
The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener’s own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call “the economy” or “the free market” is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.