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.

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

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

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.

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

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