We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.