Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

Be the kind of person who takes supplements - then skip the supplements.

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.

There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.