Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.

Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

Lawns are a form of television

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

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.