If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.