“I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.” — Wendell Berry

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.