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

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

Almost everywhere, climate change denial now looks as stupid and as unacceptable as Holocaust denial.

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

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.