We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.

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

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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

If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?

I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.