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.

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.