What I stand for is what I stand on.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of us all.

To cherish what remains of the earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

The earth is what we all have in common.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm, choose for love.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.