Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

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

The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.

I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.