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Fear doesn't have to stop us.
Hope is a stance, not an assessment.
Relationships are the core message of ecology.
Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.
I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].
Beauty exists irrespective of financial circumstances.
History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.
The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.
Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.
Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.
We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.
I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.
Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.
Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.
We evolved to be problem-solvers, to create, to be choosers of our own future!
I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.
My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.
Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.
Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
Science is showing us that we are even more connected to each other than we ever realized.
I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.
We can choose who we bring into our lives. We can choose who will reinforce our risk taking.
Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.
We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.
Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.
Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.
How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how we live.
Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.
The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.
If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.
much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).
I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.
Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are cowards.
We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely.
Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.
Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say "no, thanks" to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.
[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.
There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.
I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.
[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.