The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.