The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.

Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.

We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America")