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

...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'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have built our household on the assumption that the natural household is simple and can be simply used. We have assumed increasingly over the last five hundred years that nature is merely a supply of 'raw materials,' and that we may safely possess those materials by taking them.... And so we will be wrong if we attempt to correct what we perceive as 'environmental' problems without correcting the economic oversimplification that caused them.

The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong. It was not just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris of corporate executives that put the fate of Prince William Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that energy be cheap and plentiful.

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

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.