A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of each other's arms, and the larger circle of lovers whose hands are joined in a dance, and the larger circle of all creatures, passing in and out of life, who move also in a dance, to a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it except in fragments.

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.

Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.