As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.

In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

The people who benefit from this state of affairs have been at pains to convince us that the agricultural practices and policies that have almost annihilated the farming population have greatly benefited the population of food consumers. But more and more consumers are now becoming aware that our supposed abundance of cheap and healthful food is to a considerable extent illusory.