The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers in order to receive a clean and abundant supply of water from reservoirs in the mountains. A much likelier outcome is that they will be drinking an ever stronger mixture of sewage and mine acid and mud and cropspray and various other defecations of the industrial paradise.

There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To have a growth economy based on a declining fuel supply is bound to be stressful.

Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

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

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.