Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.

In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings of the ground are my model accomplishment-everything else I do must aspire to that. While I was at that work the world gained with every move I made, and I harmed nothing.

So friends, every day do something that won't compute.

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.