What I stand for is what I stand on.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.

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

I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.

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

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.