The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.

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

We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.

If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.

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

After the journey around the world, writing Hope's Edge, I began to see that it is not possible to know what's possible - and therein lies our freedom.

When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.