A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

It is better to buy from a small, privately owned local store than from a chain store. It is better to buy a good product than a bad one. Do not buy anything you don't need. Do as much as you can for yourself. If you cannot do something for yourself, see if you have a neighbor who can do it for you. Do everything you can to see that your money stays as long as possible in the local community.

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough