Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.

The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

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

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

Pollution is an unused resource.

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.