To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should g...
People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, n...
A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibility. It is only when I am ensnarled in the meaningless ordeals and the ordeals of meaninglessness, of...
The Earth is what we all have in common.
He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elab...
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue....
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our rel...
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this...
And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.