The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

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

The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made cooking seem much more complicated than it is, and part of that comes from watching cooking shows on television-we've turned cooking into a spectator sport. ...My wife and I both work, and we can get a very nice dinner on the table in a half hour. It would not take any less time for us to drive to a fast-food outlet and order, sit down, and bus our table.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.