Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.

If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)

We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.

From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.