“That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. ”

“The man who is more than his chemistry, walking on the earth, turning his plow point for a stone, dropping his handles to slide over an outcropping, kneeling in the earth to eat his lunch; that man who is more than his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis. But the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry; and he is contemptuous of the land and of himself, then the corrugated iron doors are shut, he goes home, and his home is not the land.”

“The land is so much more than its analysis.”

“At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.”

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

“Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.”