Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

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

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America")

As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.