How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how we live.

[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.

The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

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's grown for.

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.

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.