Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.

He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

I didn't really know exactly the point where I wanted to be an actor. But I know at this point, because I never went to college, I don't really have anything to fall back on.

Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.