The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly. - Wendell Berry

One cannot reduce terror by holding over the world the threat of what it most fears.

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.