If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

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

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.