The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.

Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one's own interest as far as possible. Checks and balances are all applied externally, by opposition, never by self-restraint. Labor, management, the military, the government, etc., never forbear until their excesses arouse enough opposition to force them to do so.

When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.