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

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

Approaches to growing food that align with nature changed human relationships.

The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's watching, and that courage is contagious.