...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)