Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

Be wise enough to learn from the past, shrewd enough to capitalize on the present, and clever enough to prepare for the future.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

The correctness of much testimonially based belief is no more than minimally creditable to the believer.

No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.

It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.