We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress….

Politicians are simply reflections of the public..

Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the….

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is t….

The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our daily ….

A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when ….

If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their intake side,….

We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate….

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star..

When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think that t….

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be ….

... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little fr….

The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can ex….

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exp….

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough..

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere..

It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy. A pantheist would not view trees ….

I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing comman….

As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community ….

The Christian message, like an ecosystem, is about process. In an ecological sense, the cross symbolizes a willingness to die so that the continuatio….