To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

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.

To hell with passive, inflict your passion on me.

You can’t believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn’t send you, no matter whether or not you like it.

To actually accept that you have an eating disorder or a mental health issue is actually a sign of great, great strength. It is not a sign of weakness at all.

I always try to take from past performances. You never try to get too high or too low. Just play every game, just treat every game like it's the same.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.