and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.

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.

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.

Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.