You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.

Without endurance, how can we overcome any difficult?

It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

There is no tomorrow without today.

It's a little different when you spend 30 years developing all these companies that we just ask [Donald Trump] to sell them. So I don't think that's a fair request.

Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.