EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK

1)  Growing your own food is one of the most subversive things you can do.  By so doing, you begin to undermine the power of the increasingly conglomerated and wasteful global food system, something which controls you by controlling your basic sustenance.
 
2)  I've always wallowed in freedom and fought against any kind of chains or control by others.
 
3)  I knew by my late teens that I could not be satisfied taking a job in which my values were compromised...
 
4)  I believe one's present degree of happiness is directly proportional to the distance separating one's true inner self from the actual circumstances in one's life.
 
5)  Perhaps the coolest and most appreciated aspect of having chickens for me is their function as scavengers in the farm ecosystem.

6)  The answer lies in moving our economy and, in turn, the global economy, away from one based on environmental destruction to one based on environmental restoration.
 
7)  Why have personal morality and ethics become so scarce, replaced by a tragic degree of greed and selfishness?
 
8)  ...what needs transforming is the culture itself.  While there is much to keep, there is also a great deal of wastefulness, over-consumption, selfishness, corruption, frontier mentality, and the erosion of frugality, resourcefulness, and basic living skills of self-reliance that all badly need correcting.
 
9)  Like a child that screws up, you can still love your country but be disgusted by it's behavior.
 
10)  The problems are so vast that everybody must contribute in the way that best suits their skills and interests and it is the overall synthesis and symbiosis of these efforts that will get the job done.