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.

If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

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

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

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

We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.

I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)