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

Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

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

A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

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