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

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

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.

I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't have the support of the rest of the tribe.

Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

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

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