It's the impeded stream that sings

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

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.

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

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.