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Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.

Hope is a stance, not an assessment.

In a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.

We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely.

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

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

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity ...

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

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

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

Much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.