I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

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.

A potential is a hidden greatness. It is the success to be realized. It is an accomplishment yet to be uncovered.

Many forgiven me for my missteps. I know, I'm BIG mouthed. Thank you for giving me a second chance. Because of you, I also forgive others...

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be a very different place.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

A dog has kindliness in his heart and dignity in his demeanor. The finest qualities anyone can have.

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!