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

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.

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.

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

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?'

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

I don't know whether I'll reach 40. I don't know whether I'll reach 35. I can't be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn't think I'd make 30.

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.