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

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.