Pat Druid

“Tradition can be double edged. It can provide a map for us, guiding us along routes that others have taken, and give us heart in difficult times. It can also condition us to experience reality in a very narrow range, fogging over the freshness of the world with a dullness of expectations and belief.”
― Jason Kirkey, Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality

“When it comes to anti-fascism in most of Western Europe, there would appear for now to be a supply-and-demand problem: the demand for fascists vastly outstrips the actual supply.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of an exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes.”
― Jason Kirkey, Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality

“The reality of industrialism.... is that for each boon it grants to our lives it offers a corresponding note of destruction. One person’s bar of chocolate is another person’s slave labor; one city, the destruction of a watershed. Everything comes at a cost”
― Jason Kirkey, Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality