in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

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

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.

Beauty exists irrespective of financial circumstances.

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

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.

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