Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.

We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.

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

To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to whom it is of no concern whether or not animals suffer will almost inevitably aid and abet the destruction of the decent old ideal of animal husbandry and, as a consequence, increase the suffering of animals. I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science.

The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.