The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.

We clasp the hands of those who go before us.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market, school, recreation, etc., by gasoline engines, the modern home is a veritable factory of waste and destruction. It is the mainstay of the economy of money. But within the economies of energy and nature, it is a catastrophe. It takes in the world's goods and converts them into garbage, sewage, and noxious fumes-for none of which have we found a use.

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.

The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.