The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.

I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.

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

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.

When you control seed, you control food.