A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of singing. I would feel milk and love flowing from me to her as once it had flowed to me. It emptied me. As the baby fed, I seemed slowly to grow empty of myself, as if in the presence of that long flow of love even grief could not stand.

For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.

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

We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.