I was expecting this to be more of a permaculture book with ideas and how-to's, but instead it was more of a love story to micro-farming, which I guess is fine, but it wasn't what I came here for. It was mildly interesting to hear about the rise of French micro-farming and permaculture and the resurgence of interest in small farms in the area. The old-school garden farmers of Paris from 100+ years ago was also interesting. It had a few good recommendations on how-to books, but that's all this was really good for.
- "Is it reasonable to let corporations forced into logic of profit in the short-term and competition for market share decide how our bodies are formed?"
- "Ingesting polluted industrial 'food' is a form of assault to our bodies, an assault to life. Giving these 'foods' to our children can be seen as slow assassination."
- "No civilization can endue when it allows itself to waste 10 calories to produce one. Our system as evolved into a massive process of unstocking the oil resources that nature took hundreds of millions of years to form. We live in the heart of a fireworks display that can only be short-lived. A growing number of experts are sounding the alarm bell. If there were a sudden shortage of oil linked, for example, to a geo-political event, France would have only a few days of food reserves."
- "The foundations of peace cannot be laid by universal prosperity in the modern sense because such prosperity, if attainable at all, is attainable only by cultivating such strides of human nature as greed and envy, which destroy intelligence, happiness, serenity, and thereby, the peacefulness of man."
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