Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

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

The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.