I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.

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.

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.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.