As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.

The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.

As I age in the world it will rise and spread, and be for this place horizon and orison, the voice of its winds. I have made myself a dream to dream of its rising, that has gentled my nights. Let me desire and wish well the life these trees may live when I no longer rise in the mornings to be pleased with the green of them shining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them.

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

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.

All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.