But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way for his life to come to him, if it will. Like a tree, he has given roots to the earth, and stands free.

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture. They think of themselves as 'consumers.'

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

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.