It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.

The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.

Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

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.