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

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.

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 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.

God is a witness to anything done in secret.

Entrepreneur, your distinction can be found on Twitter, so, is your thought leadership impressing or depressing?

Fear if allowed free rein would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men for whom only death could bring release.

You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

The first principle of self-love is that you are not for sale.

People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the recorder as a remedy for my expressions.

Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.