Sublime

problems can’t be solved within the mind-set that created them,

I am forced, against all my hopes and inclinations, to regard the history of my people here as the progress of the doom of what I value most in the world: the life and health of the earth, the peacefulness of human communities and households.

the life of each, man and the plant, depends on the other.

I grew up on a farm near Hamburg, Germany. One of the first things my father, one of the pioneers of biodynamic farming in Europe, taught me was that the living quality of the soil is the most important thing in organic agriculture.

who stood for, worked for, and dedicated their lives to the creation of a thriving, sustainable, and compassionate world.

Fourth, and perhaps most important, there is a recognition that building community is a requisite foundation for building a better world.

then it will be time to update the plumbing in U.S. cities to remove contaminants from sewage so human wastes can be recycled back to the farm.

We can’t manufacture watersheds, gene pools, topsoil, wetlands, riverine systems, pollinators, or tropospheres,