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.

Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.

The earth is round!

Identify confident people whom you admire and respect and notice what they do differently to project such confidence. Learn by observing role models.

I don't really know who I am, and I don't know when to stop, so if I see a great big threatening button that should never ever be touched I just want to do this!

Lucifer is the hero of the Bible, and the most misunderstood being in its narrative. He is not Satan, but the Light Bearer!

In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

Animals may be our friends, but they won't pick you up at the airport.

Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.

Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.

There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.