There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

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.

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

Learning to accept help from others is not a sign of weakness it's a badge of courage reflecting mutual trust between the giver and the receiver.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

People seem to get caught up in jargon like they get caught up in ashrams and power structures and they never become free. They become masters of jargon and power structures.

This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.