People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

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.

God bless my soul.

Instructions for successful living: Dream it. Plan it. Do it. Repeat.

I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

Working on it.

The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

Too many things are possible in a dream. It's most interesting when you don't know which space you're in.

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

I turned my back on the devil, turned my back on the angel too.