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

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.

The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.

I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy - all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I'd spent a decade building my dream, and then it started to crumble, piece by piece - my marriage, my organization, my confidence.

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.