And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

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

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of earth, but also the earth's ability to produce.