Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

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.

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.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates.

I don't do well at picking first single.

The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

I had a twin, and he didn't make it.

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

The United States of America is a threat to world peace.

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.