The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what's bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding someth… - Wendell Berry

One of the roots of the problem is the focus of environmentalists. The conservation movement, for one hundred years, has, at least in this country, focused on wilderness preservation—places of spectacular rocks and waterfalls—at the expense of what I would call the “economic landscapes” of farming, forestry, and mining.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.