You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

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.

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.