“Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.”

“Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.”

“Rule No. 41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.”

“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.”

“It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.”

“In the modern view, the pitched roof was itself a “dead concept,” but equally unhealthywere all those other dead concepts that got stored underneath the gable, in the attic. For there is where the ghosts of our past reside: the bric-abracand mementos that a lifetime collects; the love letters, photographs, and memories that clutter an attic and threaten to bear us back in time.”

“The final standards do a good job of setting the bar for a more environmentally responsible kind of farming but, as perhaps was inevitable as soon as bureaucratic and industrial thinking was brought to bear, many of the philosophical values embodied in the word "organic" - the sorts of values expressed by Albert Howard - did not survive the federal rule making process.”