Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

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.

Life without books, chocolate & coffee is just useless.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

Who doesn't love a little Taylor Swift in their life? You know you need a little Taylor Swift in your life.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.