Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years.

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough