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

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

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

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

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

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

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.