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

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn’t invented by us, and we can’t uninvent it. We’ll need some help with that.