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

Beauty exists irrespective of financial circumstances.

I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of.

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

The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

That's what happened when my own life crumbled. The people who came into my life bolstered me to take more risks, to be even more true to myself.

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.