“The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.”

“The effect is both domestic and wild, equal parts geometric and chaotic. It's the visual signature of small, diversified farms that creates the picture-postcard landscape here, along with its celebrated gastronomic one. Couldn't Americans learn to love landscapes like these around our cities, treasuring them not just gastronomically but aesthetically, instead of giving everything over to suburban development? Can we only love agriculture on postcards?”

“‎"The real measure of our wealth is how much we should be worth if we lost all our money.”

“The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.”

“Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.”

“When we consider that resources will one day be mined from planets other than the earth, that matter and energy are totally interchangeable, and that basic chemical elements can be transmuted, we realize that resource seeds are so abundant that they do not impose practical limitations on the creation of wealth at all.”