There’s far too much generalization now about rural America. Conservatives and corporations have had their eye on rural America all along. And they’v… - Wendell Berry

We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.

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.

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