Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's watching, and that courage is contagious.

I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

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.

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.

Science is showing us that we are even more connected to each other than we ever realized.

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.