It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato

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

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.