Lawns are a form of television

A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.

Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.

Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in a lawn, since grass never dies or is allowed to flower and set seed. Lawns are nature purged of sex or death. No wonder Americans like them so much.

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