A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.

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

What can't be helped must be endured.

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

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