Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.

The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.