Adam Smith

Would you call yourself a localist?

Wendell Berry, more than most, showed the rest of us what it's like to choose membership over celebrity.

Our increasingly obvious failure to make anything like “progress” is part and parcel of our failure to conserve the order from which all progress comes.

Sometimes I’ll sit still for, say, an hour, and imagine all the people around the world who have embraced me, shook my hand, kissed my cheek.

My real fear is not so much that the Internet makes us bad readers, but that it makes us bad writers.

We ought to see localism not as an accomplice to the tribalism that’s everywhere rising, but as an antidote to it.

A whole-hog way of seeing.

I wanted living color, an axe to break the frozen sea.

"I don't particularly call myself an environmentalist. I love the Pinchot National Forest. My specific woods, the land that my family is from..."

The politics of Jesus are “brutally modest.” “Jesus’ life seems to have been mostly one of local, familial labor and relations, carried out in the compass of a small town…

The basic principle of education is that you can’t learn anything you don’t want to learn

Now – every moment, but now especially, this moment in history – is the time not to watch but to act.