To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

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.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.

The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.