Straight outta Michael Pollan's mouth*, I'd like to forward this quote:

"The order we impose upon nature is never more than temporary or illusory. In the end, the logic of nature will win out over the logic of capitalism, the logic of the factory, the logic of efficiency. It's always been so and it always will be so. Nature is stronger than any of our designs and nature resists our control."

*from the PBS video adaptation of his book, The Botany of Desire.