The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.

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

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.