Most modern homes are simply uninhabitable without electricity - you couldn't flush the toilet without it. It's a huge dependency situation.

If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.

People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.

I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.

We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.

Pollution is an unused resource.

Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?