Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2.

But could words bethe end of me?

There are no rights and wrongs. Just lessons, lessons and more lessons. With hopefully a little fun in-between.

Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside." "Or give them a chance to redeem themselves.

I never go to a gym unless I have to for a role, a contract. I try to take care of myself as a human being, not because I have to be in front of the camera.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.