# Quote — Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl

> 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.

- Author: [Paolo Bacigalupi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi.md)
- Book: [The Windup Girl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi/the-windup-girl.md)
- Page: 93
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paolo_Bacigalupi#The_Windup_Girl_(2009)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi/the-windup-girl/food-should-come

## More from this book

> Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.

p. 77 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi/the-windup-girl/every-time-he-makes.md)

> The symbol for the Environment Ministry is the eye of a tortoise, for the long view—the understanding that nothing comes cheap or quickly without a hidden cost.

p. 121 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi/the-windup-girl/the-symbol-for.md)

> If you act like a servant, you will die like a dog.

p. 159 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi/the-windup-girl/if-you-act.md)