I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of.

I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].

We hear, "Oh, we need to patent GMOs and develop new strains and new chemicals because Nature can't provide what we need." I have to debate people all the time who say that Nature can't provide enough.

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

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

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.

After the journey around the world, writing Hope's Edge, I began to see that it is not possible to know what's possible - and therein lies our freedom.