“There are no meanings apart from roots.” --Walter Brueggemann.
"Eaters . . . must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." --Wendell Berry
"God's gracious and free action does not destroy creation; it establishes it once again; it gives creation back to us as creation, as a sheer gift . . . When we are really persuaded that God's kingdom comes by his grace, then and then only do we come down off the ladder and put our feet on the ground--the soil of this earth--once more. Hope in the world to come makes us proper citizens of this world." --Gerhard Forde
