It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in nutrition, in agriculture, in the wholesomeness of mind and spirit is as absurd as a farmer who is uninterested in health. Our fragmentation of this subject cannot be our cure, because it is our disease. The body cannot be whole alone. Persons cannot be whole alone. It is wrong to think that bodily health is compatible with spiritual confusion or cultural disorder, or with polluted air and water or impoverished soil.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.