'A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the soil, has set his mind decisively against what is wrong with us. He is helping himself in a way that dignifies him and that is rich in meaning and pleasure. But he is doing something else that is more important: He is making vital contact with the soil and the weather on which life depends. He will no longer look upon rain as a traffic impediment, or upon the sun as a holiday decoration. And his sense of humanity's dependence on the world will have grown precise enough, one would hope, to be politically clarifying and useful.'A Continuous Harmony is published by Shoemaker & Hoard (Avalon Publishing Group Inc)
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