It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.