Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

"Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it."

"In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)"