Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.