I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

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

Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?

Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.

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.

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

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