I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

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

For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds. And we won't get anywhere until we come to terms with this crucial ambiguity about our role - that we are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

Nature abhors a garden.