- Pastor Bridges: [quoting Wendell Berry] All goes back to the earth, so I do not desire pride of excess or power. But the contentments made by men who've had little. The fisherman receiving the rivers grace, the gardeners musing on the rows. I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our ways lighted by burning men. And that has bent my mind, made me think of darkness and wish for the dumb life of roots.