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

The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.

That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.

An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.