I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.

We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.

Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he's seeing all kinds of illnesses that he never used to see. Not only juvenile diabetes, but inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that a lot of the docs don't even know what to call. And girls are going through puberty much earlier; and kids are allergic to just about everything, and asthma is out of control. Everyone knows it's our foods... Kids today are the first generation to grow up on this stuff.

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