We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.

If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

What can't be helped must be endured.

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.