In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world.

Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs (:)...Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles...Plants usually go into the body through the mouth and stomach, whereas purified chemicals can be put...by snorting or injecting...directly into...bloodstreams without giving...bodies a chance to process them. Other compounds in drug plants...may modify the active principles, making them safer.

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.