The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.