I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.