Van Jones Quotes

Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.

If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.

The best way to feed the world in 50 years is to grow food where most of us live—in cities.

The British have such an odd relationship with food - and the land. I want the public and the Soil Association to see that growing things in a garden is no different to growing things in a field.

My dream is to be a farmer myself, but also to provide opportunities to others who don't have the land or the resources, in order to grow food themselves and teach them how to do it.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I guess we cut Michelle Obama's garden. You hear about that? The Democrats are distressed.

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

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

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

All the people of the earth could be fed from the land within a circle of a thousand mile radius [of Kansas City.]