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.

I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.

I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't have the support of the rest of the tribe.

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.

A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.