The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.

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

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.