At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.

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.

Shade for a manAnd shelter for animals, Planted in your name, May you be the same for those around you, Every year the same.

It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

Every moment, if properly utilized, has the potential to transcend space and time.

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

I can kill a dog in six ways. Five of them are throwing missiles at it.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.