sustainability
Sustainability is when if you keep doing what you’re doing you’ll be able to keep doing what you’re doing.
Quoted by John Abrams in The Company We Keep (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2005), 158.
My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.
“Questions for Ruth Reichl: Clearing the Table,” interview by Deborah Solomon, The New York Times, October 15, 2009.
I aim for appropriate self-reliance, not for independence. Independence is for Neanderthals.
“Author Carol Deppe on Growing ‘Lots of Delicious Food for the Least Possible Work,'” Q&A by Makenna Goodman, Grist, October 18, 2010.
After some years in the country, during which time I have experienced the satisfactions of working the land, building the soil, and making brown into green, I am beginning to believe that our new world which will open up after the war should be constructed round a repopulated rural America, so that a reasonably large proportion of the population shall participate in the culture of the earth.
“A Week in November,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 334.
The land, even though it has been mistreated, can still support the population—that we know. The question is whether the population has the temperament and the ingenuity to support the land—that is, to return its goodness, not just sap it.
“Farm Paper,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 145.