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

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.

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.

What is different and exciting is how much we have learned. We learned we were right that we don't need the chemical model of agriculture. We know so much more about the life of soil now and we understand how plants synergistically work together with microbes and animals to create healthy conditions.

Science is showing us that we are even more connected to each other than we ever realized.

I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down.