Carol Deppe > Quotes

“Reality is, there is almost always something going wrong. Hard times are normal.”
― Carol Deppe

“We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.”
― Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times

“Only some things are worth doing well. Most things that are worth doing are only worth doing sloppily. Many things aren't worth doing at all. Anything not worth doing at all is certainly not worth doing well.”
― Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times

“Corn is at the core of modern agribusiness, the most important food crop in North America. In no other crop are the values of modern commercial agribusiness as thoroughly embedded. There is nothing we can do that is ultimately subversive - there is no act of gardening that is so profound a rebellion, there is no act of eating that is so potent a blow for food quality and food system sanity - as to take back the corn crop in our own backyards, and grow, breed, eat, and save seed of corn based upon an entirely different set of values.”
― Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times

“To save seeds is to complete the circle. When we save seeds, we are plant breeders, choosing which germplasm to perpetuate.”
― Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times

“To the High Heavens I praise the potato, and recommend planting it, eating it, and honoring it.”
― Carol Deppe