Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.

If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.

All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.