It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Some folks of cider make a rout And cider's well enough no doubt When better liquors fail; But wine, that's richer, better still, Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will) Must yield to nappy ale

People will always show their true selves in the end.

The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer.