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

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

Humans need to feel effective - to feel that we can "make a dent," as he puts it. So the art of living is to find expressions appropriate to our own uniqueness in which we can experience effectiveness.

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.

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