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

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues of conservation and good agriculture and peaceableness, they find something hopeful in my work.

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