You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.