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.

So friends, every day do something that won't compute.

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

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.