Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Never start a day or activity without a plan. Learn to plan your work, and then work your plan.

Never ever allow your present predicament to alter your goals in life”.

The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.

Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.

Forget things and have a quiet moment.

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.

I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.