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.
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.
Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
A man’s life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed.