Perhaps the negative examples they see every day— brownfields, factory farms, suburban sprawl—truncated their ability to see some good between humans and the earth. (Location 155)

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Plants know how to make food and medicine from light and water, and then they give it away. (Location 208)

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I experienced the world in that time as a gift economy, “goods and services” not purchased but received as gifts from the earth. (Location 414)

I was blissfully unaware of how my parents must have struggled to make ends meet in the wage economy raging far from this field. (Location 415)

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The exchange ends once parity has been established, an equal exchange. (Location 443)

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in a gift economy, one’s freely given gifts cannot be made into someone else’s capital. (Location 451)

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage. The fields made a gift of berries to us and we made a gift of them to our father. The more something is shared, the greater its value becomes. (Location 466)

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Many of our ancient teachings counsel that whatever we have been given is supposed to be given away again. (Location 475)