You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

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

We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?

To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.

We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America")

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

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