Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.

A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.