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

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.

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.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival.

Those who say there are no more original ideas need to get out of the way of those of us who are creating them.

But words are more powerful than anything.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

Europe and the United States are not the whole world.

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.