That we don't design agriculture to be sustainable is totally eerie. We design it to be a disaster, and of course, we get a disaster.

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.

Don't hire anyone you wouldn't want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning.

Did you know that using social media can actually help you to increase your level of thinking?

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

Words can be as deadly as bullets. But bullets are faster acting. ~ Brandon Hull

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.

I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

Twice – Once too often.

Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.

Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.

The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.