It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of land, water, and air.

If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.