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.

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

We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.

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.

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

I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.