Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.

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.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.

I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't smile and laugh all the time... But if a girl can make me laugh... I'm in love!!!!

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

Travel light and trust in serendipity.

Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.

Dangers breed fears, and fears more dangers bring.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.