They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

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

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

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

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

The environment is everything that isn't me.

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

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

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

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