If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.
I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.
You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented. . . culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.
'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.
Remember, machines don't forgive.
Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.
Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Often you just have to rely on your intuition.