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

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves and one another. From this there is no escape. We may collaborate either well or poorly or we may refuse to collaborate, but even to refuse to collaborate is to exert an influence and to affect the quality of the product. This is only a way of saying that by ourselves we have no meaning and no dignity; by ourselves we are outside the human definition, outside our identity.

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.

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.

There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.