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.

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand. Every puddle in the lane is ringed with sipping butterflied that fly up in flutter when you walk past in the late morning on your way to get the mail.

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

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.