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

Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.

Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.

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

What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.

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

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.