Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

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.

Compassion‬ is medicine to a wounded heart. When we show compassion to those who are suffering we preach Jesus in another way.

Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

The press came out with headlines. Trump throws baby out of arena. I don't throw babies out, believe me. I love babies.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

You should be certain that angels are protecting you when you go to sleep. Yea, that they are protecting you also in all your business, whether you enter or leave your home.

I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!