The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

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

It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it would make the world worse. This was true of that new war, and it has been true of every new war since... I knew too that this new war was not even new but was only the old one come again. And what caused it? It was caused, I thought, by people failing to love one another, failing to love their enemies.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.