Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

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

We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

Eat only until you're 4/5 full. An ancient Japanese injunction.

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.