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.

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.

A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.