We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.

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.

We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely.

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.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.