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.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the Gospels seriously, how can we not see industrial warfare - with its inevitable massacre of innocents - as a most shocking perversion? By the standard of all scriptures, neglect of the poor, of widows and orphans, of the sick, the homeless, the insane, is an abominable perversion.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your relationship to your place. Both need to be a settled commitment and both involve continuous learning and adjusting.