With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

Names are the way we humans build relationship, not only with each other but with the living world.

The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos, the word for home.

caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.

To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.

All powers have two sides, the power to create and the power to destroy. We must recognize them both, but invest our gifts on the side of creation.

The very earth that sustains us is being destroyed to fuel injustice. An economy that grants personhood to corporations but denies it to the more-than-human beings

Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress.

I wonder if much that ails our society stems from the fact that we have allowed ourselves to be cut off from that love of, and from, the land. It is medicine for broken land and empty hearts.

In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.

They subjugate first, if the weaker peoples will stand for it; then exploit, and if they will not stand for SUBJUGATION nor EXPLOITATION, the other recourse is EXTERMINATION.

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

But superstition, like belief, must die.

I've obviously been born fortunate. I love people. I enjoy every single minute of my life.

Stop talking to people about what you will do; show them instead what your are doing.

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.