Nature's+Operating+Instructions

"we need to adopt a new conception of nature. one in which we stop treating the planet as if it were some kind of business. we can start by looking to farmers like Eduardo that rely on nature for solutions, for answers. Rather than imposing solutions on nature." (Dan Barber)

"For though nature doesn't seem to dictate in advance what we can do in a place—we are free, in the same way evolution is, to try something completely new—in the end she will let us know what does and does not work. She is above all a pragmatist, and so is the successful gardener" (Michael Pollan Second Nature 194-195)

"By any conventional accounting, the forests here represented a waste of land that could be put to productive use. But if Joel were to cut down the trees to graze more cattle, as any conventional accounting would recommend the system would no longer be quite as whole or as healthy as it is" (225).