When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this world, then if we wish to live, we cannot exempt ourselves from using the world. If we cannot exempt ourselves from use, then we must deal with the issues raised by use. And so the second law is that if we want to continue living, we cannot exempt use from care.

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.