I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

You are a prisoner of conformity when you care about what other people think.

Behind a great success, there was a great failure

Want is an empty void — your real value is full and abundant.

Nothing good happens after dark... -Daire in Betrayed

We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.

The greatness of America is in the American people. And what we need to do is get the government the hell out of the way and let the American people win once again.

Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.

Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop.