Unfortunately, today we take our food for granted; the shelves of our hypermarts groaning with products of the plant kingdom,ripped from the sustainable cultures of the world, have divorced us from the back-ache of the plough and hoe and so separated us from direct contact with the cultivation in good heart of the Earth's most endangered resource, soil.

(Als Tineke het niet snapt lever ik er morgen een vertaling bij.)

"The new Oxford book of food plants" Vaughan J.G. & Geissler C.A. Oxford University Press