Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough