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

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities