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

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.

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

Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.

Willing to die you give up your will; keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.