You won't get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that.

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.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Only love can touch the heart.

If you often feel alone, ignored, or forgotten, think about this: closing the door and locking yourself in won't change anything—literally and figuratively.

I want it clearly understood that I'm totally confused.

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

I was born and raised during Depression Years when we were on County relief and we all went out and we hustled. we worked. I worked in a restaurant, I washed dishes.

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.