There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

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.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.