Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.