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%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ...from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974.

We can choose who we bring into our lives. We can choose who will reinforce our risk taking.

Fear doesn't have to stop us.

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

A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.

We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.

I don't rule anything out, and I couldn't underscore more the importance of what YES! is doing to show that there are people who are pushing the edge of hope, who are stepping into the unknown and taking risks, because that will then enable others to do the same.