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

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

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.

If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the economy, but writers just have to face up to the fact that there are some fundamental tensions between the economic order and the biological order.