Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

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.

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

His chair glides a few inches closer and he's in my face, all shoulders and cologne.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.