[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.

With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.

My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a Small Planet." I learned that if I could just show up, in this case, if I could just get myself out of bed, get to the computer in my tiny office at MIT, and start writing, help would start arriving.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.

You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.