There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.

The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.

People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.