The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.

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.

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

Food is the place where you begin.

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

When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.