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

Everything we eat begins with a plant turning solar energy into carbohydrates. Everything. Whether we're eating meat or eating vegetables, it all begins there. So I'm always interested in taking things back to the beginning.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.

I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better.