Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

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

Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.