“They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.”

“I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.”

“Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.”

“Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.”

“If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?”

“Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.”

“Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?”