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

The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.

How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?