In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)

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

A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.