I think mine is a very rich life.

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.

Then his beautiful lips touched hers. A fluttering of wings, a cry of angels, a single beat of two hearts.

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls.

I've always been down-to-earth about money.

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

If we continue on the path we're on, there simply won't be enough fresh water for everyone.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?