People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

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.

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.

Fame is worth less than service.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely.

I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us from being genius's to not feeling great about ourselves by having doubts, fears and anxieties.

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.