It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your relationship to your place. Both need to be a settled commitment and both involve continuous learning and adjusting.

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.

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.