Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.