Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.

I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.