We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

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.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

The first wealth is health.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

The stars are filming us for no one.

The democrats are a coastal party.

The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

You can't be a leader by following a leader.

I was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.