I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

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.

We evolved to be problem-solvers, to create, to be choosers of our own future!

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.

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

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.

I had left graduate school, determined that I wasn't going to do anything else to "save the world" until I understood how I could get at the underlying causes of deepening suffering. To do that, I had to start by admitting that I didn't know.