So it is that the life force may take possession of a man — so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging t… - Wendell Berry

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

"As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives."

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.