Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land

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

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.

The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers in order to receive a clean and abundant supply of water from reservoirs in the mountains. A much likelier outcome is that they will be drinking an ever stronger mixture of sewage and mine acid and mud and cropspray and various other defecations of the industrial paradise.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.