Education has increasingly been reduced to job training, preparing young people not for responsible adulthood and citizenship but for expert servitud… - Wendell Berry

So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting — the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.