Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost.

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

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

It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.