Quotes

What do we owe the next generation of environmental stewards?

Tomorrow marks the start of fall. According to poet Rainer Maria Rilke, it’s about time.

“…environmental changes happen so slowly that we do not recognize as they occur.”

Reading about nature is fine,

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation.

Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading.

Why, according to Lyanda Lynn Haupt, is walking a “necessary practice?”

John Calvin is overwhelmed.

Barbara Kingsolver on genuine “food culture,” from her book on local agriculture: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.

“Remember–the root word of humble and human is the same…earth.”

Creation leads us to “choir the proper praise.”

A 2nd century church father on the creatures that minister to our needs.