The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

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.

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.

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

I am weird, and you know what? That's OK. So are most interesting people.

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

The world hates the truth and all that share it, and so if you share truth eventually you will be hated by the world if you are not ready.

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

One of the easiest ways to go green is to go small. I want to show people that there's an amazing modern green future, and make it easy for them to step into it.

Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.

When you are at Rome, do as you see.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.