Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.

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.

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

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 mind replays what the heart can't delete.

People and events of wonder and magic are the lifeblood of the world.

They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal

Time should always by used well to maximise personal desires.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

There are no coincidences. Just miracles by the boatload.

Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

Jerry [Garcia] got high and Jerry's dead. I went hunting and I'm still Ted.