The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.

We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.