Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.

Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to support us and the rest of its living systems.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.