Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced by a curious process of logic. According to this process, people first declare themselves to be followers of Christ, and then they assume that whatever they say or do merits the adjective "Christian".

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.

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.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.