All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

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

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.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

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

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.