It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

Invest in the millenium.

Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens.

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.