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

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

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present

This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal.

We live the given life, and not the planned.

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.