The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.

It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

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

A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

The language that reveals also obscures.

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.