I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

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

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

Humans need to feel effective - to feel that we can "make a dent," as he puts it. So the art of living is to find expressions appropriate to our own uniqueness in which we can experience effectiveness.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).