You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.

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.

Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.

I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.