The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

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.

Take the helm and sail your own ship. Don't just get into the boat with nobody at the helm and merely hope that the waves of life take you somewhere good.

Social values, friends, communities and families control our thoughts.

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

I am never afraid of what I know.

I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

The Republican Party may be forever reconstituted and changed, which may not be a bad thing either, in and of itself.

In training, there is no winning or losing. There is only learning.