You can't cooperate by knocking something about or bossing it or forcing it to do things.

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.

Use your time to create yourself

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.

Be first: achieve every dream.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

I think things happened the way they did for a reason

Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.

You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you're not identified with the story unfolding there.

You are what you pretend to be.