If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

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.

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

I had left graduate school, determined that I wasn't going to do anything else to "save the world" until I understood how I could get at the underlying causes of deepening suffering. To do that, I had to start by admitting that I didn't know.

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

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.