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

It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

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

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.