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

The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic technology, but only by millions of small acts and restraints, conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural solutions.

You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction

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