But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

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

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.