The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.

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

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.