Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.

Diane Wilson asked, "Why aren't people upset? Why aren't people protesting?" The mayor and county commissioners told her to keep quiet, and everybody else was afraid to speak out against the companies, which included some of the country's biggest chemical companies. There were even attempts on her life. Family members abandoned her, and certainly none of the other shrimpers stood with her.

What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never be like that. But we don't know. We do know that it's possible for a woman, who didn't grow up as a world changer, to find it in herself to take a stand.

What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.

Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.

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

Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.