There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

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.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.

Even if you are not aware of it, there are moments when you are receiving hints, a nudge, or support from the other side.

Being like a rock wall" is when a master of martial arts suddenly becomes like a rock wall, inaccessible to anything at all, immovable.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

You may have a fresh start anytime you choose.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.