Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do..

This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose ….

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity..

Humans need to feel effective - to feel that we can "make a dent," as he puts it. So the art of living is to find expressions appropriate to our own ….

I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organi….

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility..

I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem - and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out of t….

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are..

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully..

Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained at an estimated 33%. ….

I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descarte….

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices..

Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want..

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out othe….

My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see the intense times of confusion and ch….

After the journey around the world, writing Hope's Edge, I began to see that it is not possible to know what's possible - and therein lies our freedo….

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action..

Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it….

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth..

The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not enough" to the positive frame o….

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy..