Engagement is the good life. What could be more exciting than getting involved in something that you care about and joining with others and seeing something change? What could be more thrilling?

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

Fear doesn't have to stop us.

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.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.