And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present

To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by the ability to recite facts, but by the good order or harmoniousness of his or her surroundings. We must suspect that any statistical justification of ugliness and violence is a revelation of stupidity. (pg.192-193, People, Land, and Community)

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.

I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.