"There is a wisdom that comes into a culture when many of its people have a direct connection to the land and to life, to the living cycles. I see many of the political agendas today as being a total failure to understand life, seasons, accountability, and the connections of life and people to our community. There's just no connection, and so there's no reason, there's no common sense. You can blame as many people on the right as on the left."

Joel Salatin, qtd. in Rod Dreher, Crunchy Cons