If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.

The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.

A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)

The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?