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

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

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

What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)