People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

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.

I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

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