It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.

It is a fact that the entire Kentucky River system, which the central part of the state complacently depends upon for its future water, is deteriorating rapidly because of strip mining, because of bad farming, because of industrial and agricultural pollutants, because of urban sewage. It is deteriorating, that is to say, because almost nobody cares, or cares to know, where water comes from, so long as it keeps coming.

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

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.