One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
Wendell BerryThe soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
Wendell BerryThe economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.
Wendell Berry