You Have To Be Able To Imagine

There Comes . . . A Longing Never To Travel Again Except On Foot.

Willing To Die You Give Up Your Will; Keep Still, Until Moved By What Moves All Else, You Move.

Annual Plants Are Nature's Emergency Medical Service, Seeded In Sounds And Scars To Hold The Land Until The Perennial Cover Is Re-established.

In The Loss Of Skill, We Lose Stewardship; In Losing Stewardship We Lose Fellowship; We Become Outcasts From The Great Neighborhood Of Creation. It Is Possible - As Our Experience In This Good Land Shows - To Exile Ourselves From Creation, And To Ally Ourselves With The Principle Of Destruction - Which Is, Ultimately, The Principle Of Nonentity. It Is To Be Willing In General For Being To Not-be. And Once We Have Allied Ourselves With That Principle, We Are Foolish To Think That We Can Control The Results. (pg. 303, The Gift Of Good Land)

We Can Grow Good Wheat And Make Good Bread Only If We Understand That We Do Not Live By Bread Alone.