You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.

The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

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

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.