I think this is a watershed moment because now the economics start to change. Fulfilling these conditions is not going to be cheap and makes dam removal a more viable economic alternative.

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

I'm not against change, and I'm not against growing. I am against turning the town into a big city. My goal is to keep it a community of friends.

When we found she had no headstone, we just knew we'd have to change that.

There is no gainsaying the fact that this suggested program will strike most people as impossibly “radical” and “unrealistic”; any suggestion for changing the status quo, no matter how slight, can always be considered by someone as too radical, so that the only thoroughgoing escape from the charge of impracticality is never to advocate any change whatever in existing conditions. But to take this approach is to abandon human reason, and to drift in animal- or plant-like manner with the tide of events.

After a lot of grim years, this was a big week for us.