Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.

The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.

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

Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?