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.

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

I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.

Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.

Pollution is an unused resource.

We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.