and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.

The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.

The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.