The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.

Be your best company.

We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.

I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.

Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.