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

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

We are disposed, somewhat by culture and somewhat by nature, to solve our problems by violence, and even to enjoy doing so. And yet by now all of us must at least have suspected that our right to live, to be free, and to be at peace is not guaranteed by any act of violence. It can be guaranteed only by our willingness that all other persons should live, be free, and be at peace — and by our willingness to use or give our own lives to make that possible.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.