Monsanto doesn’t care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.
Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.
It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.
We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the soil that we call fertility begins to diminish, and the soil itself begins to flee from us in water and wind.
A farmer’s market is worth more than everything I’ve written.
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.
The world is whole beyond human knowing.
I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.
The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.