“Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn’t spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. We went down that path once, and it brought us to ruin.”Paolo Bacigalupi book The Windup GirlSource: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 93
“Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?”Paolo Bacigalupi book The Windup GirlSource: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 247
“You're saying that you yoked the world to your patented grains and seeds, happily enslaved us all—and now you finally realize that you are dragging us all to hell.”Paolo Bacigalupi book The Windup GirlSource: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 151