The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.

...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.

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.

It's the impeded stream that sings

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.