You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.

I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.

The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really.