Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

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.

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Meditative thoughts assist people escape a vapid fantasy life and reconnect with ultimate reality.

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

Every one has a level of influence that can be harnessed for greater good

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be.

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

My wife gets mad because we'll be in the middle of something and I'll stop and say, 'No, I've got to write this down!' She'll say, 'No! We're in a discussion!' I say, 'I know, but it's hilarious!

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.