No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.

The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making