You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing with righteousness – as at the crucifixion and before and since. This can happen only after we have made a categorical refusal to kindness: to heretics, foreigners, enemies or any other group different from ourselves.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.