If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

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.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Celebrating Culture is celebrating existence.

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.