The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

The problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at least, the large problems occur because all of us are living either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong. It was not just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris of corporate executives that put the fate of Prince William Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that energy be cheap and plentiful.

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around.

If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.