I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

Clean plates don't lie.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

I think having children is the most amazing thing.

we ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

The most ideal approach to advance is the way of opportunity.

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

Everyone deserves compassion.

It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.

Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.