Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

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.

My heart drips into the cracks on the sidewalk as he leaves.

I may not know what is in store for me. However, I always know how I prefer to respond to my circumstances whatever they may be.

When the dream that was no longer can be, you have to dream a different dream.

I want to ripoff your logic and make passionate sense to you.

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.

I want to do stuff that excites me and is enjoyable.

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.