Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

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.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.