American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.

We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

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

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

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

The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.