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.

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.

On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But our social nature also means that we may let ourselves be controlled by the judgments of others, precisely because we care so much about our status in community.

I had no identity [when I was 27] - I was terrified that somebody would ask me what I was doing, and I would have no answer.

How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how we live.

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

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