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.

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

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.

We hear, "Oh, we need to patent GMOs and develop new strains and new chemicals because Nature can't provide what we need." I have to debate people all the time who say that Nature can't provide enough.

Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.

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