With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never be like that. But we don't know. We do know that it's possible for a woman, who didn't grow up as a world changer, to find it in herself to take a stand.