The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

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

We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. They have to get on a bus and take a long ride to get to a source of fresh produce.

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.

Lawns are a form of television