Denise Morrison Quotes

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

In an organic system you don't waste anything. We need to educate the consumer to accept a tiny blemish on an orange.

I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.

Protecting our planet is a moral imperative.

Everything depends on our ability to sustainably inhabit this earth, and true sustainability will require us all to change our way of thinking on how we take from the earth and how we give back.

The Kitchen's mission is to strengthen communities by bringing local, real food to everyone.

We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

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

I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.

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

I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.