Beast Quote by Barton Seaver

When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Food exemplifies the difficulty of withdrawing from the modern economy, because you can’t live without it and because not many people produce all of…

— Derrick Jensen

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our…

— Anonymous

We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources:…

— Dan Barber

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

— Mehmet Oz

If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall…

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our…

— Winona LaDuke

Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

— Sandra Lerner

“Producing and eating our own food is, historically, much of what made us Americans and not subjects of European powers. While other colonies required…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions. Yet”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.”

— Bryant McGill

“We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen