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

It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.