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.

Pollution is an unused resource.

If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

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

One of the great rules of design is do something basic right. Then everything gets much more right of itself. But if you do something basic wrong - if you make what I call a Type 1 Error - you can get nothing else right.

You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.