The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

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.

Remember, one step leads to the other and therefore never neglect the first step. It will give you the confidence you need to sail through with victory

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

Television really does offer still great parts for women, cable in particular.

I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.

In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.

It doesn't matter where Messi plays, if it's cold or hot, he always proves that he's the best.

Tip the world over and everything loose falls into L.A.

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

I often don't think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.