Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

The earth is what we all have in common.

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.