May 4, 2016

  • Mariah Ryan, 2, checks out tomato plants growing outside the Baltimore Catholic Charities Head Start program in Edgewood, Md., June 2013. While severe malnourishment is rare in the U.S., more than 16 million children live in households that are unable to access enough nutritious food for a healthy life, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (CNS photo / Nancy Wiechec)

"There is not a 'fragment' in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself."

- John Muir, from A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916), p. 164