Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.