"The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of loc… - 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.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.