Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

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.

The Umayyad caliphate stretched from Spain to India, making it the largest empire in the world

Love is the joy of the soul.

It symbolizes a spear, and in this sorry world the symbol is the thing.

The damaged loves the damaged.

We never get so near God as when we plead for others.

I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'

What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.