If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.

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.

The heart never stops even if you stop your breath, Life goes on even if you go through death

Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O!

My mother was a huge influence on me - she was a free spirit and helped me appreciate, from a very early age, that everyone is different.

Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?

I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est

The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.

I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.