Food for Thought

Doing better than "less harm"

Our goal as participants in the land must be to do better than “less harm.” Why focus on doing less bad when we can actually improve, actually regenerate? The highest possibilities of human presence are staggering—I would consider the idea of a Garden of Eden a fantasy if I were’t confronted with evidence to the contrary in my daily life” – Ben Falk

Preparing Wisely

“Most westerners, if they survive the upheaval of the next three decades, will find themselves intimately involved in organic processes of cultivating land, living in communities where transport is expensive, local or non-existent and applying hand labor to a multitude of processes that today are mechanised. We are grievously unprepared. For a time, we may enjoy the small luxury learning how to get work done through biological systems, renewable energies and good design without having to depend upon the outcome for our very lives. We should use this interval wisely.” – Quote from The permaculture handbook

Community Dream

"The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community (even if their intentions are ever so earnest), but the person who loves those around them will create community." Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The present of the world

“We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children. ― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays