Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land

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

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.

People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.