Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

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.

Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them. Cooks have their ways of saying grace too... Cooking something thoughtfully is a way to celebrate both that species and our relation to it.