...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

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

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.

Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.

An old novel has a history of its own.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

There is no need for fur - since there are compassionate alternatives.

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.

I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.