Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

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.

She walkedthrough her lifeheavyfrom themighty wingsupon her back.

Great artists need great clients.

The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

Streaking. That's a very stupid young man thing to do. There is something ruder I can't mention. Celebs On Sunday, you're kinda clean, aren't you? Hmm. Maybe we should stick to streaking.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.