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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new.
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.
Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.
Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.