I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above … - Wendell Berry

I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

The room of love is another world. You go there wearing no watch, watching no clock. It is the world without end, so small that two people can hold it in their arms, and yet it is bigger than world on world, for it contains the longing of all things to be together, and to be at rest together. You come together to the day's end, weary and sore, troubled and afraid. You take it all in your arms, it goes away, and there you are where giving and taking are the same, and you live a little while entirely in a gift. The words have all been said, all permissions given, and you free in the place that is the two of you together. What could be more heavenly than to have desire and satisfaction in the same room?

It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.