The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.

Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.