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.

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.

What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food as a source of nourishment, health, and community, rather than a threat. That means reconnecting with food as it comes from the Earth and with those who produce food.

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.

I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

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.