I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.

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

With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature.

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.

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.

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.