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

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Hope is a stance, not an assessment.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food as a source of nourishment, health, and community, rather than a threat. That means reconnecting with food as it comes from the Earth and with those who produce food.

Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.

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