A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

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.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.