5 Quotes by Peter Denton

And weeds? I will never forget her terse observation: 'Back home, we don't have any weeds. We only have plants for which we have not yet found a use.

Unlike information, knowledge is always local, woven together with where we learn it and where we learn to use it. Yet knowledge does not exist in a vacuum. It requires other people, to teach us, to value what we do, and to join with us in community -- in a context where information that has become knowledge can then be turned into wisdom.

A sustainable local economy is one that enables the local community to be sustainable in all of its aspects in the long run. If the local economy is not sustainable, its future has been traded away -- literally -- to people at a distance, for the proverbial bowl of stew.

The global village is illusory at best -- and, at worst, is evidence of delusion on a global scale. We live in the village -- the community -- where our home happens to be.

She said how ludicrous it was to plant huge fields of the same kinds of crops, guaranteeing pests -- and the need to use chemicals -- when, back home, the same crop was planted every seven rows. Mixing things up meant that a pest would starve before reaching the next row it needed to eat.