...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

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.

[B]eauty is one of the things that make you cry and so maybe beauty is always tied up in tears.

I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead.

Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.

It's great to get to work with your idols.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

What about you?" "Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something.

I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.