"We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation."

"Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines."

"Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life."

"Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food."

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."

"The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws."

"One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks."