If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.

We live the given life, and not the planned.

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

There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.