What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.

What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

Nothing about me surprises me.

I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.

Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.

We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.