It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.

Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households.

We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.