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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.